Review business control diagram and business cases

The objective of this step is to analyze the customer’s business using the Enterprise Business Model as a starting point. The result of this step will be a definition of the business cases and business functions that match the customer’ s business.

Take the following steps:

  1. Define the scope of the customer’s model. To be specific, you must define the external agents and external business functions. External business functions are part of the business but are outside the scope of the modeling and implementation project, for example, business functions supported by legacy systems or other software systems. These external functions still interact with business functions that are within the scope of the modeling and implementation project. External agents are entities outside the customer’s business, which interact with the business functions that are in scope, for example, customers, suppliers, and bank.
  2. Review the major function BCD of the Enterprise Business Model and determine the physical goods flow and major business functions that are applicable to the customer’s business.
  3. Review the business cases of the Enterprise Business Model using the major function BCD as a starting point, and analyze the relationship between the business cases and the customer’s business.
  4. Analyze which business cases are not supported by the Enterprise Business Model and must be modeled.
  5. Use the Functional Decomposition to review the main functions and its variants that were not yet reviewed as part of a business case and analyze the relationship with the customer’s business. The functions that are applicable to the customer’s business must be part of the customer-specific major function BCD.