The handbook is a concise visual guide for Enterprise Modelling and Strategy Planning. It is also a reference manual and aide memoire for the enterprise modelling method provided. While the book describes an Enterprise wide Architecture design method, the activity is referred to as Enterprise Modelling to distinguish it from the Enterprise Architecture today which typically covers mainly IT. The Enterprise Modelling covers all tiers of the enterprise: Business, Technology and People. The Information Technology is still in focus though because IT is the common denominator of all enterprises as it is deeply embedded in the enterprise operation today and it is core to its digital future.
The outcome of the Enterprise Modelling is the Enterprise Model (EM) which is the integrated set of the various blueprints. A set of Posters sums up the key modelling steps and blueprints. The handbook describes in posters the single page generic Business Architecture (GODS), the 3D Enterprise Modelling (EM) Framework (FFLV), the EM Metamodel, Reference Models, EM integrated Design outlook, the Strategy Development and Planning process, the Enterprise Model Development method and the overall Enterprise Transformation Process.
The Handbook enables you build your enterprise modelling approach by starting from the framework, the generic business architecture and the various models, architecture principles and processes provided, tailored to your circumstances. The handbook starts by aligning in the 3D framework context the definitions of the key enterprise modelling elements, such as process, value stream, flow, function, capability, service... which lack of alignment is often the problem for the EA discipline today. To help, samples for the Framework utilisation in the Airline, Medical Insurance and Gas to Liquid industries are supplied.
In addition, the handbook ultimately proposes a ground breaking method to approach the Digital Transformation and the Design of the Enterprise of the Future with Business Capabilities as a Service.
Why this book?
The Digital evolution accelerates as we speak. The market is ripe for Enterprise Modelling. Companies are won over the utility of an Enterprise Model because it enables the enterprise analysis, fixes and improvements, operational alignment to strategy and the enterprise transformation planning and execution.
Enterprise Modelling enables the enterprise agility so needed by the Digital fast evolution, through the reduction of the unnecessary enterprise complexity, and duplications with their associated cost. Also Enterprise Modelling facilitates the successful business transformation by offering the blueprint for change.
Without such an enterprise modelling framework, many EA practices would continue to engage in rather mundane activities such as architecture solutions, reviews and policing... without ever providing the much needed reference Enterprise Model.
