Business Motivation Model Research Articles

Meta4CBC: Metamodel for Competency-Based Curriculum Design in Higher Education

Meta4CBC is proposed as an innovative metamodel for competency-based curriculum design in higher education, addressing the critical need to adapt curricula to contemporary challenges driven by globalization, technological advancement, and climate change. Inspired by the Business Motivation Model and Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules metamodels, Meta4CBC seeks to overcome the limitations of current CBCD models by providing a coherent structure that integrates curriculum components at supra, macro, meso, micro, and nano levels and establishes a common language that facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration. The proposal promotes curriculum alignment and coherence while supporting the development of software tools to assist in curriculum design, automate repetitive tasks, and provide data analysis for informed decision-making. The validation of Meta4CBC was conducted through a multi-step methodology involving proof of concept, expert judgment, and practical application. After defining the components through a systematic literature review, the metamodel was tested in the Computer Engineering program at the University of La Frontera. This testing verified its adaptability and alignment across curriculum levels. Experts from various Chilean universities reviewed the model, providing feedback for refinement.

Identifying Institutional Barriers and Enablers for Sustainable Urban Planning from a Municipal Perspective

Steering towards a path of sustainability and resilience in urban environments depends greatly on effective institutions, governance and strategic planning. National governments are increasingly expanding municipal institutions’ mandates by delegating decision making on land-use planning and urban development to local and regional levels. This trend poses municipalities with a complex challenge of setting clear sustainability targets and lifting the institutional barriers inside and outside of their organisation. Based on the business motivation model (BMM), this study presents the results of a thematic analysis identifying barriers and enablers characterizing the institutional capacity base of a municipal organisation in the context of sustainability at an urban level. The results show that the most relevant barrier is the lack of standardisation in sustainability-related working practices, whereas the main institutional enablers relate to flexible working directives that promote the development of innovative projects. This points towards a strong need for a more integrated, dynamic and powerful development approach for sustainable urban areas on a local level.

Business Motivation Model for Information System Architecture Development Support

Since the beginning of business management, optimization of enterprise’s performance has been recognized as its main objective. However, a suitable motivation model had to be implemented to achieve that goal. This paper aims to present discussion on Object Management Group (OMG) Business Motivation Model (BMM) in theory and in practice.

Transport and Logistics Enterprise Architecture Model

The article argues that the fundamental transformations of business processes, characteristic of the era of digital economy, have so far affected Russian motor transport industry to a small extent. Digital transformation assumes a cardinal revision of the role of information technologies in management of the transportation process, based on a deep and comprehensive analysis of data, a fundamental change in approaches to organization of road transport production.To this end, it is proposed to consider the concept of enterprise architecture, covering various aspects of shaping different aspects of a transport and logistics company, as well as methods for modeling system solutions. The article analyzes transportation management system solutions, compares different approaches to the architecture of an enterprise, tools of its development like ER-charts, basic notations, life cycle, business motivation model. The suggested model semantically links real objects, ITand business processes, social aspects, and structure organisation of an enterprise.

Modelling Strategic Alignment of Business and IT through Enterprise Architecture: Augmenting Archimate with BMM

In the last decade, Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been proposed to have the potential to improve and support strategic alignment between business and IT. This paper presents a new model, using a new modelling technique based on two leading modelling techniques, to depict strategic alignment between business and IT through the lens of an Enterprise Architecture framework, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). The contribution of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it augmented the Archimate modelling notation with the constructs of the Business Motivation Model (BMM) to present a more comprehensive technique of modelling strategic alignment of business and IT. Secondly, the paper also presents a new model that aims to explain the mechanism through which an Enterprise Architecture can enable strategic alignment between business and IT.

Agile enterprise architecture modelling: Evaluating the applicability and integration of six modelling standards

ContextAgile enterprise architecture artefacts are initially architected at the high-level and the details of those artefacts iteratively evolve in small project increments. There is a need to model agile enterprise architecture artefacts both at the high and low detailed level for a particular context. ArchiMate is relatively a new high-level architecture modelling standard. There is a growing interest amongst organisations in applying ArchiMate for high-level agile enterprise architecture modelling. However, organisations are unsure how to effectively apply ArchiMate at high-level and integrate it with their existing low detailed level modelling standards in practice for supporting end-to-end agile enterprise architecture modelling. ObjectiveThis paper evaluates the applicability and integration of high-level ArchiMate modelling standard with the existing low-level modelling standards such as BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation), UML (Unified Modelling Language), FAML (FAME [Framework for Agent-Oriented Method Engineering] Language), SoaML (Service Oriented Architecture Modelling Language), and BMM (Business Motivation Model). MethodA qualitative questionnaire-based evaluation criteria has been developed based on the well-known and comprehensive The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). The evaluation criteria has been applied to evaluate the applicability and integration of the selected six modelling standards from the business, application, infrastructure and extension perspectives. ResultsEach modelling standard is different in scope. A single modelling standard usually does not provide the kind of support required by the agile enterprise architecture modelling. Based on the review results, a hybrid enterprise architecture modelling approach is proposed. This paper demonstrates the application of the proposed hybrid approach with the help of an agile enterprise architecture modelling case study. ConclusionIt is concluded that the ArchiMate does not replace the existing low-level modelling standards, rather it can be used in conjunction with low-level modelling standards. This calls for the adoption of hybrid and integrated approach for agile enterprise architecture modelling.

A decision-making method for business process outsourcing to the cloud based on business motivation model and AHP

Outsourcing business processes to the cloud is among the proposed solutions to help SME to emerge in the market and enhance their added value. However, the benefits of such solution highly depend on several factors specific to the enterprise context. Hence, an enterprise needs a decision-making method to assist it in deciding whether its business plan calls for cloud computing adoption, which parts of its business process are the most profitable from outsourcing, which cloud computing model is the most suitable, ... This paper highlights the need and proposes a context-aware decision method for cloud adoption to enable enterprises to understand, self-assess, and select an appropriate cloud computing model aligned to their business context. Besides proposing an appropriate enterprise context, this paper shows how the business motivation model of an enterprise also enhances the outsourcing decision-making by taking into account the business plan and vision of the enterprise.

An ASPIRE-based method for quality requirements identification from business goals

Quality requirements are the main drivers for modeling and evaluating software quality at an early stage, and ASPIRE is an engineering method designed to elicit and document the quality requirements of embedded systems. This paper proposes an extension to ASPIRE to identify quality requirements from the business goals of the organization and ensure their traceability. This extension includes a set of added components created from the main concepts of the SOQUAREM methodology, including the BMM (business motivation model), derivation rules, the quality attribute utility tree, the quality attribute scenario template, the quality attribute documentation template, and ISO 9126. The applicability of the extended method is illustrated with a wireless plant control system as an example.

6.4.1 All for the Want of a Horseshoe Nail: An Examination of Causality in DoDAF/MODAF

AbstractThe title of the paper refers to the proverb of the death of Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field. “For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, … and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.” The pattern described is called a chain of causality or causal sequence. DoDAF 2.0 contains many concepts that can document these sequences as well as the dynamic elements, feedback loops and influences. This paper will examine a telecommunications scenario and show how DoDAF is used to document and analyze the sequence. System Dynamics, Business Motivational Modeling (BMM), and simulation are also examined. System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behavior of complex systems over time. The Business Motivation Model (BMM) published by the OMG looks at ends, means, goals, and assessments. This will provide decision makers a more effective set of tools to evaluate operational scenarios as a means of improving outcomes. The method for how to attack a problem where causality needs to be revealed is also discussed.

Eliciting Data Warehouse Contents for Policy Enforcement Rules

Data Warehouse requirements engineering has been extensively looked at from the ENDS perspective of the Business Motivation Model, in terms of goals the system to-be wants to achieve. The authors propose that the MEANS perspective of this Model can drive the requirements engineering process. MEANS are organized into business policies and ‘policy enforcement rules'. Starting from policies expressed in a higher order logic, the authors propose an approach to formulate policy enforcement rules. That subset of the set of formulated policy enforcement rules which is most appropriate for the business is to be selected. For this, the information relevant to the rules is to be kept in the Data Warehouse. The authors technique picks up the components of the policy enforcement rule to elicit the information that has a bearing on its selection. The elicited information is represented as an ER diagram. The authors rely on existing methodologies to convert an ER form into star schemas. The authors use the medical domain to illustrate our methodology.

A Business Motivation Model for IT Service Management

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach usually considers a set of motivational concepts that are used to model the reasons and motivations that underlie the design and change of organizations, which corresponds to their Business Motivation Model (BMM). Likewise, this BMM is also present in organizations that provide IT services. However, although ITIL has become a standard for performing IT Service Management (ITSM), there is not one holistic solution to integrate EA and ITIL. Therefore, we propose to join both approaches through the definition of a specific Enterprise Architecture to design organizations according to ITIL's best practices to perform ITSM. Thus, this paper's goal is twofold: on one hand to establish that architecture's motivation model, and, on the other, to contribute for a formal identification and representation of the ITIL business motivation model itself.

Hybrid Enterprise Modelling: Integrating Modelling Mechanisms for Socio-Technical Systems Analysis and Design

Nowadays, Model Driven Development (MDD) is a powerful technique for modelling complex systems and also for aligning business and information technology (IT), giving designers the ability to execute business models as they are intended to be run and behaved in the business environment. The Object Management Group (OMG) adopted many business standards into the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) environment e.g. Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), the Business Motivation Model (BMM), Business Process Modelling and Notation (BPMN) and Organisational Structure Model (OSM). These can work together to model different aspects of the enterprise at the business level. However, these models lack reasoning and dynamic simulation: there is no significant way to simulate discrete and continuous time system behaviour or to build arguments for reasoning about the design options within the OMG specifications. In this paper we propose an approach to overcoming this problem, by integrating a set of modelling tools into one single platform, taking advantage of meta-modelling techniques to integrate new tools with the OMG specifications in a model driven environment. The prospective framework should be able to tackle advanced analysis and design problems by intertwining design, reasoning and simulation to achieve a higher level of design maturity through implementing the desired scenario.

The Need to Evaluate Strategy and Tactics before the Software Development Process Begins

Experience has shown that poor strategy or bad tactics adopted when planning a software project influence the final quality of that product, even when the whole development process is undertaken with a quality approach. This paper addresses the quality attributes of the strategy and tactics of the software project plan that should be in place in order to deliver a good software product. It presents an initial work in which a set of required quality attributes is identified to evaluate the quality of the strategy and tactics of the software project plan, based on the Business Motivation Model (BMM) and the quality attributes available in the ISO 9126 standard on software product quality.

From The Business Motivation Model (BMM) To Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

The purpose of this article is to provide a brief insight about how to link your business vision, goals, strategies, tactics as well as business rules according to BMM, then bridging the resulting business specifications toward components of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in order to align IT according to your goals and directives.

Advances in decision analysis and systems engineering for managing large-scale enterprises in a volatile world: Integrating Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks (BOCR) with the Business Motivation Model (BMM)

Over the past few decades, innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have led to a significant increase in the complexity of enterprise information systems. This has led to new challenges for enterprise architects, systems engineers, business managers and other decision makers who must cope with the complexity of business plans and processes (particularly automated engineering processes). In order to better manage this complexity, the Business Rule Group (BRG) has put forth the Business Motivation Model (BMM). The original BMM uses a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) decision analysis approach. However, the SWOT framework contains significant limitations with respect to decision making and ICT risks, hampering the decision making ability of enterprise architects, business managers, engineers, and other decision makers. The AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and ANP (Analytic Network Process) are among the most widely used decision making tools: they commonly implement a Benefit — Opportunity — Cost — Risk (BOCR) analysis to improve the effectiveness of business decision making. A new approach is put forth that replaces the original SWOT assessment with an ANP-based BOCR analysis. As well, the original BMM is modified and applied in a Component Architecture Framework (CAF).