Business Genetics: Understanding 21st Century Corporations using xBMLxBML业务建模：21世纪商业管理工具

作者： Cedric G. Tyler 著

出 版 社：

出版时间： 2007-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 247印刷时间： 2007/06/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780470066546包装： 精装内容简介

A revolutionary way to describe business, xBML (extended Business Modelling Language) is an intuitive graphical language that unlocks the DNA of a corporation using a system of diagrams based on five Ws (Who; What; Which; Where; When). xBML gives companies an complete and accurate map of their enterprise, that can then be re-used repeatedly to describe, plan and create improvement.

It’s time to throw out the flow charts. XBML breaks down the silos of an enterprise and provides the means for clear, concise communication between all members of the organization. Tyler and Baker provide a complete guide to xBML, and to why unlocking an organization’s Business Genetics will lead to quantifiable business improvement.

作者简介

Cedric G. Tyler is President of BusinessGenetics, principle inventor of the xBML methodology, and a leading expert in the fields of Business Modeling, Business Process and Information Technology. He began his career with IBM in the UK and subsequently co-founded INFOMET and Infolab, two international companies specializing in the business-to-information technology interface which were acquired by IBM in the 1990’s. He has advised many leading organizations in the private and public sectors and served as an adjunct professor at the Daniels College of Business at Denver University.

目录

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 What’s the issue and why should I care?

2 Why are tools to understand business so inadequate?

2.1 How did we get here?

2.2 Business definition à la 20th century

2.3 But we have had some (limited) success

3 OK (enough already), so What must be done?

3.1 Purpose-based thinking

3.2 How we answer the W5 questions

4 What do genetic business models (XBML) look like?

W1: the What dimension

W2: the Who dimension

W3: the Where dimension

W4: the Which dimension

W5: the When model

W5I (integrated): the How model

5 How do we (quickly) create xBML models (aka Business Co-Formulation)

6 The ‘So what’ (where’s my darn ROI?)

6.1 Some quantifi able types of business gain

6.2 Some more very real but less quantifi able types of business gain

7 How do I implement this?

7.1 Enterprise deployment?

7.2 But how do I implement or manage my xBML projects?

8 What about BPM (Business Process Management)?

9 What the heck is the difference between BPEL, BPMN, UML, IDEF and xBML?

9.1 BPEL

9.2 BPMN

9.3 UML

9.4 IDEF

9.5 xBML

10 Based on (anticipated) popular demand, more on auto-business requirements generation

11 COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) software selection

12 An added big, big takeaway

13 A quick last summary

Appendices

Appendix A: xBML example – Fill ‘a vacant job position’

Appendix B: Potential knowledge sources

Appendix C: Some government laws governing commerce

Appendix D: Sample enterprise deployment what model

Appendix E: BRD

Appendix F: Can xBML be automated?

Glossary

Bibliography

Index