The business behavior model
: concepts and usages

  • Denis Lemaire

Student thesis: Master typesMaster in Computer science

Abstract

In a society increasingly demanding in time and quality, getting organized to face the growing demand is an unavoidable necessity. A good organization provides means to quickly get adapted to variations and be prepared to face competition. This unstable environment which surrounds the firm has to be counter-balanced by an accurate management of the structure and the resources of the organization. In this context, firms deploy schematic tools to improve their understanding of the influencing entourage. Various techniques are used to describe gathered understanding of different levels of organizational view. This organizational view is a layered set of the company‟s aspects starting from the management level and ending in the creation of solutions. However, those emerging techniques are introduced to model particular aspects of the organization; Goal modeling is purposed to set, in a schematic way, the ambition of the management level. Value modeling is used to define and analyze the impact of a value proposition13. All those useful techniques are providing a view of a part of a complex system without any relation to other issues. By ignoring those other problems, the proposed solutions in each layer may become inconsistent with the others. A solution which could provide a complete view of the entire aspects of the scene where the considered company is performing is clearly unaffordable due to the complexity of that scene. The commonly considered solution is to use tools to pull out consistency among layers. This thesis focuses on the transition between the emissions of the strategic goals and their implication in a value proposition13. The proposed solution aligns the strategic and the business layers thank to a new intermediary model, the Business Behavior Model. This model represents the resources, the decisions, and the motivations of an agent.
Date of Award2010
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • University of Namur
SupervisorMichael Petit (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • business/IT alignment
  • business and strategy alignment
  • resource modeling
  • rational agent

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