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Business Motivation model

From the Object Management Group (great acronym: OMG)

Business Motivation model

If an enterprise prescribes a certain approach for its business activity, it ought to be able to say ‘why;’ that is, what result(s) the approach is meant to achieve. Sometimes it is difficult to uncover such motivation, especially in operations that have been going on for some time. All too often it turns out to be “...because we had to find a workaround for a system that didn’t do quite what was needed.” This may describe business work practice, information systems, or both. A cornerstone of any work addressing motivation has to be the enterprise’s aspirations (its Vision) and its action plans for how to realize them (its Mission). Refinements were introduced; Vision into Goals and Objectives, and Mission into Strategies for approaching Goals, and Tactics for achieving Objectives. The general term End was adopted to refer broadly to any of the ‘aspiration’ concepts (Vision, Goal, Objective) and the term Means to refer generally to any of the ‘action plan’ concepts (Mission, Strategy, Tactic). This conjunction of Ends and Means ‘being’ and ‘doing’ provides the core concepts of the Model

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