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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation
Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation: Create and implement a successful business strategy for improved performance throughout the whole enterprise

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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

Chapter 2. Making a Business Case

In this chapter, I will explain some general principles of modeling and the key benefits of using the ProVision® modeling solution, specifically to support business strategy. You can use this information to support your business case.

Recently, I had a meeting with the directors of a major household brand. They had just finished completing a strategic review of the business, which had been signed off by the board. They had numerous stakeholders to satisfy, and naturally the final result was a compromise, which was reached after months of meetings. I was with an experienced business coach who asked the CEO, "So, how will you know if you have succeeded?". The CEO had difficulty in answering the question. One of his senior managers in the room jumped to his rescue: "Oh, we are working out what we want to measure. We have agreed on some of the measures, but haven't yet put any numbers against them."

The coach asked: "How do people in the organization feel about...

The benefits of moving to a central repository


It is important to understand the difference between a drawing tool and a visual relational database such as ProVision®. The outputs can look identical. Because drawing tools are so much cheaper, why would you invest in ProVision®?

There are a number of drawing packages available, Microsoft Visio is the key player in this market. It is a drawing package that is optimized for business diagrams. Modelers can select pre-built stencils to create models rapidly. As Visio is often installed already, it is the tool of choice of many business analysts.

Designed to scale

If all you need to do is visually represent an aspect of a business, then there is nothing wrong with Visio. However, its limitations soon become apparent. To understand the key differences, I need to explain some basic concepts about ProVision® as you will see them mentioned throughout this book. I mentioned them in the first chapter of the book and will now examine them in more detail...

Summary


If all that you wish to do is draw pictures, then Visio will do the job. However, as soon as you want to create a model of the key parts of the enterprise, a drawing package is inadequate. It simply is just not designed for this purpose. You can't maintain thousands of objects, you can't collaborate, and you can't scale.

ProVision® is one of a handful of software packages that have been designed to help manage large, complex organizations.

ProVision® is part of the Open Text Metastorm business process execution suite. As your enterprise matures and grows, you may want to be able to automate the monitoring of high value or high volume processes. By adopting ProVision®, you give yourself the ability to transition to business process execution, without the need to switch platforms.

Of the tools that are designed to model the whole business, each has strengths and weaknesses. ProVision® is a good all round tool.

Sandra developed a point of view that the strongest link to business strategy...

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Key benefits

  • Fully understand the key benefits of implementing a business strategy
  • Utilize features like the integrated repository and ProVision® frameworks
  • Obtain real insights from practitioners in the field on the best strategic approaches
  • Ultimately design a successful strategy for deploying ProVision®

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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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a business architect or CIO in a large organization who wants to implement a successful strategy using Open Text ProVision®, then this book is for you. It will also be of interest if you are an enterprise designer or architect. It might be that you already have working knowledge of ProVision®, but do not yet have the skill to implement it in the right context; this book will help you get there.

What you will learn

  • Quickly get up and running with the key features of the Open Text ProVision® toolset
  • Fully understand and communicate the key benefits of Open Text ProVision®
  • Discover how to manage the repository with effective governance
  • Master the essential foundation of your first five projects with ProVision®
  • Take full advantage of a framework to organize information and review a methodology for building models
  • Learn about the Enterprise Designer approach
  • Obtain support and buy-in for modeling
  • Grasp Metastorm best practices from real-world users of the tool
  • Learn to deal with both the technical and human aspects of implementation
  • Understand why a customer-centric approach is the most successful
  • Effectively deploy a ProVision® strategy

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Table of Contents

7 Chapters
Designing a Strategy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Making a Business Case Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using a Framework Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adopting a Methodology Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Effective Governance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding the Toolset Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book is full of information on how to quickly start modeling your business and using the information to make better decisions. I was able to use this book to create several models over a few days that were used to help align personal interpretations to a global model which results in better discussions and more informed decisions.Although geared for Provision, the concepts and steps could be translated to any tool.
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