This section outlines are the key benefits of conducting business modeling.
Use business solution modeling as a demonstration to executive management, business owners, and strategic users that can promote and generate user acceptance earlier in the implementation lifecycle. Be able to provide to executive management and business owners with hard evidence (results) of how the new enterprise business solution will support their organization.
Business solution modeling provides a working model that the project team can present to, and that can help you to appropriately set the expectations of, these groups, instead of having gossip and hearsay set the expectations. Remember that any COTS implementation will be a highly-visible project and must produce visible results quickly. "The longer a team, large or small, goes without delivering an integrated product to a review process, the greater the potential for failure...