Table 11.
Overview of the EKD method sub-model.
EKD | Goals model | Business rules model | Actors and resource model | Business process model | Technical components and requirement | Prototype model |
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Focus | TSP vision and strategy, from viewpoint of business requirement | Modeling policy and rules. | Enterprise organization structure | TSP business operations | The needs of ArchiMate EA systems. | Business ontology |
Issue | What is the organization attempting to achieve or avoid and why? | What are the business rules? How do they support TSP goals? | Who/what is responsible for goals and process? | What are the business (sub) processes? How is information processed therein? | What are the EA business requirements? How do they interact? | What are the phenomena addressed in the sub-models? |
Compo-nents | CATWOE. | Business rule. | How do actors interrelate across organizational directorates? | eTOM ABE through activity decom-position levels 2, 3, and 4 | EA elements of business, application, technology, grouping. | ArchiMate relation: flow, triggering, assignment, serving, realization. |