
| 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. |
| 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 |
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