Creating an Enterprise Plan
An enterprise plan is a purposeful undertaking, conducted by one or more organizations, aiming at delivering goods and services, in accordance with the enterprise mission in its changing environment. In the course of its development, the enterprise must adapt to its environment and establish transformation objectives to be achieved as well as the strategic action plans used to achieve them. The development and achievement of the different adaptation and transformation stages can lead to a modification of the organization's boundaries. This requires the implementation of an integrated team, under the responsibility of a governing body, to involve the stakeholders in the transformation.
A basic enterprise plan is made up of the following elements:
• a start enterprise event;
The start event can be positioned arbitrarily at the beginning of the current year, for example.
• an end enterprise event;
The end event can be positioned with an analysis time frame (e.g.: year n+ 5, year n+10)
• a current ('As-Is') stage that concerns existing elements;
• a target ('To-Be') stage that concerns target elements;
Creating an Enterprise Plan
To create an enterprise plan:
1. From the Environment navigation pane, select Enterprise plans.
The list of enterprise plans appears in the edit area.
2. Click New.
An enterprise plan creation dialog box opens.
3. Specify the name of the enterprise plan.
4. In the Start event section, select Create a new event to create the event that marks the start date of the plan.
5. In the End event section, select the Reuse existing event check box.
6. Click the arrow to the right of the frame and select the event that interests you from the drop-down list.
7. Click OK.
Connect the enterprise to a library
Libraries are collections of objects used to split HOPEX repository content into several independent parts. They allow creation of virtual partitions of the repository. In particular, two objects owned by different libraries can have the same name.
To connect the enterprise plan to a library:
1. Open the Characteristics property page of the enterprise plan that interests you.
2. From the Owner field, select the library to which you want to connect the plan.
Enterprise plan properties
The Characteristics page of the property pages of an enterprise event is used to access:
• its Name,
• its Owner,
• Start event of the enterprise plan.
• End event of the enterprise plan.
• the Description text.
With HOPEX Business Architecture an enterprise plan is described in the same way as an enterprise stage.
Initializing an Enterprise Plan
When the enterprise plan is created, the Functional Administrator must perform the following tasks:
• Define the objects in the library that are part of the enterprise plan scope,
• Create the enterprise "As-Is" and "To-Be" stages that are used to start the transformation planning,
• Specify the participants in the enterprise plan and the role of each of them.