Business Modeling Techniques

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These modelling techniques are useful for business change. They are divided into Stakeholders, As Is, Processes, To Be and Project.

Stakeholders

Stakeholder radar - Used to agree on stakeholders engagement levels

Stakeholder Venn diagram - Understanding our stakeholders and their importance to the situation

Personas - Enables us to understand other peoples’ perspectives and appreciate their views.

As Is

  • Rich picture - Used to show what is going on at the moment both within and without the organisation. Can also be used to show a future state.

  • Customer journey - A key part of UX and enables the understanding of the pains and gains that a customer experiences dealing with our product.

  • Value proposition - Explains what our products do to help your customers

  • Value stream map - Fits with the capability map and helps the business understand how value is created for the customers.

  • Capability map - Show our business capabilities as well as our strengths and weaknesses within these capabilities.

  • Fishbone diagram - Good for root cause analysis when investigating a specific problem.

  • Decision tree - An excellent technique for showing the business rules.

Processes

  • Processes map - A high level diagram showing the key business processes and how they relate to each other.

  • Swimlane diagram - Shows the interaction between various teams as to how an individual process can work.

  • BPMN - Business process modelling and notation. Another version of a swimlane.

  • Task activity diagram - This is for use and by individual departments to show the work that teams within that department undertake. It is shown on a swimlane diagram as one task.

To Be

  • Business Activity Model - This helps the business stakeholders define what they expect the new changes to the business to look like. It aids understanding & consensus.

  • Force Field analysis - Show the forces for and against change. Excellent tool to help management make decisions.

  • Benefits dependency network (Benefits map) - This ensures that before deciding on the IT change that the benefits are agreed and the business changes align with those benefits.

Project

  • Scope diagram (Context diagram) - A simple diagram showing the main objectives of the project.

  • Use case diagram - A more detailed version of the Scope diagram showing the functional requirements of the new system and the people who will have access to them.

  • Use class diagram - Show the way that information (data) is stored within the system and the relationships between those key elements.

  • Entity relationship diagram - Same as use class diagram but different format.

  • Burndown chart - Shows graphically how your team is progressing with their workload and gives a rough idea as to when the tram will achieve its goals.

  • State machine diagram - The entities that are shown in the data models may benefit from the understanding of the changes that occur to each individual record within its lifecycle.

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Rod Simpson
Independent consultant / trainer / coach
Rod has worked in a large variety of organisations helping to deliver business change both via technical projects as well as non technical solutions. He is passionate advocate for a wide variety on business modelling techniques.
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