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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By : Bill Aronson
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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By: Bill Aronson

Overview of this book

Open Text ProVision® (formerly known as Metastorm ProVision®) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution allowing for effective planning and decision making throughout the enterprise. It enables an organization to have a central repository of information about the business, reducing organizational risks and better optimizing business resources. Implemented well, it enables better and more actionable decisions exactly when you need them.This book combines theory and practice to provide a step- by- step guide to building a successful customer- centric model of your business. The approach is simple and down to earth, and along the way, with various real-world examples, you will learn how to make a business case, use a framework, and adopt a methodology with Open Text ProVision®. This book draws on the experience of ProVision® experts around the world. By combining theory with practice from the field you can avoid common mistakes and develop a successful customer centric strategy for implementing ProVision®. Each chapter builds on the previous one to give you the confidence to implement a central repository, dealing with both the technical and human issues that you might face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Open Text Metastorm ProVision® 6.2 Strategy Implementation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Enterprise Designer framework


In Chapter 1, Designing a Strategy, we outlined the five core components that are needed to describe any organization, along with the sequence in which to capture them. Here is a quick reminder. Every business has goals. The way to achieve goals is to create customers. To retain those customers, offer products and services that the customers want. To provide these services in a consistent and repeatable way, design processes. These processes combine seven elements together. The five basic components are:

  • Elements (seven elements that are used to configure a process)

  • Processes (ten types of process and how they relate to each other)

  • Products and services (how and why to create a model of products and services)

  • Customers (how and why to create a model of customers)

  • Goals (where the five types of goal fit into your business model)

Let's take a closer look at these five components. Each component breaks down into greater detail. In all, there are 26 components that can...