Business Modeling

Three main goals of business modeling are to: reach a common understanding of the business domain; understand the problem and potential improvements; derive the system requirements.  Business entities are the foundation to defining system entity classes.  There are seven key steps... 

1. Describe current business
2. Identify business process
3. Refine business process definitions
4. Design business process rationalization
5. Refine roles & responsibilities
6. Explore process automation
7. Develop a domain model
8. Summary – Business Modeling Service Overview