Defining the transformation roadmap
This step consists of planning the means (strategies and tactics) to implement to reach the transformation objectives identified during the previous step for a given Enterprise Transformation Stage.
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.
An IT transformation stage is an enterprise transformation stage aimed at aligning the enterprise IT system with the functionalities expected by the operations.
A business transformation stage is a kind of enterprise transformation stage aiming at the alignment of the enterprise operating model to its strategy and corresponding exhibited business capabilities.
Defining the events and the first enterprise stages
An event represents a fact occurring during execution of a process, for example a new contract concluded with a supplier. An event marks the impact on process progress of a phenomenon internal or external to the process. There are different natures of events: start events, catch events, throw events and end events.
An enterprise stage is a past, current or future stage of an enterprise plan.
An enterprise plan is itself an enterprise stage; it is therefore possible in HOPEX Business Architecture to define business capabilities and enterprise models for courses of action directly at the level of the root enterprise plan, and refine the iterative roadmap drill down into the subsequent stage levels.
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') enterprise stage that holds the currently deployed business capabilities map, the business architecture environment and the solution building blocks;
The end event of this stage is the intermediate event that defines the 'pivot' transformation benchmark beyond which you are in the 'target' stage
• a target ('To-Be') enterprise stage that holds the target business capability map, the business architecture environment and the target solution building blocks.
The start date is the end pivot event of the previous ('As-Is') stage.
Defining enterprise stages
With HOPEX Business Architecture, an enterprise stage is defined by a number of components.
• A business capability map, which contains the capabilities valid for the current enterprise stage;
• A business function architecture environment, which contains the elements that define the enterprise model (operating model) for the current stage.
• the definition of the ecosystem of the enterprise (interactions with partners),
• the business function architectures,
• the business functions.
• The solution building block environment that depends on product licenses used, for example:
• with HOPEX System Oriented IT Architecture, the environment for Logical Application Systems, the environment for Application Systems, etc.
• with HOPEX IT Architecture, the environment for Resource Architectures, etc.
Assessing a business capabilities map
A business capability map is a set of business capabilities with their dependencies that, together, define a framework for an enterprise stage.
From an enterprise stage or enterprise plan, it is possible to assess the business capabilities of the business capability map connected to the current stage.
Defining the transformation roadmap
From an enterprise plan or an enterprise stage, it is possible to define enterprise sub-stages. Each enterprise sub-stage is positioned in the main enterprise plan according to the main enterprise events, in order to define the transformation roadmap for the enterprise plan underway.
The transformation roadmap is presented in the form of a Gantt chart.
