Summary
The Strategic Alignment pattern in the Analysis and Discovery pattern category demonstrated features to analyze, refine, define, optimize, and report business processes in the enterprise. This pattern highlighted how IT development and process models can be aligned with organization goals. While performing alignment, we learned about enterprise maps, Strategy Models, and Value Chain models. We discovered how models are created and linked to an organization. We learned how to define KPIs in processes and Value Chain models.
The chapter also offered a detailed description on publishing report data, and creating impact analysis reports and critical reports. Capturing business context shows the importance of documentation in the process model phase. Different document levels and their methods of definition were discussed along with their usage. Further, we learned how to create different reports based on the information we documented in the process, such as RACI reports. The process...
