Business Genetics

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 cofounded 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. Steve Baker is CEO of BusinessGenetics® and has over twenty-five years of experience in the IT, Healthcare, and Real Estate industries. He has held management positions in Fortune organizations including Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). For the past decade he has focused on improving the communication within and among businesses as well as improving their operational efficiencies. He sits on the boards of several private and nonprofit corporations, and has been an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Business.

• Acknowledgements ixPreface xi1 What’s the issue and why should I care? 12 Why are tools to understand business so inadequate? 52.1 How did we get here? 82.2 Business definition à la 20th century 132.3 But we have had some (limited) success 213 OK (enough already), so What must be done? 253.1 Purpose-based thinking 333.2 How we answer the W5 questions 354 What do genetic business models (xBML) look like? 39W1: the What dimension 49W2: the Who dimension 54W3: the Where dimension 57W4: the Which dimension 61W5: the When model 66W5I (integrated): the How model 695 How do we (quickly) create xBML models (aka Business Co-FormulationTM) 816 The ‘So what’ (where’s my darn ROI?) 976.1 Some quantifiable types of business gain 1026.2 Some more very real but less quantifiable types of business gain 1167 How do I implement this? 1317.1 Enterprise deployment? 1317.2 But how do I implement or manage my xBML projects? 1368 What about BPM (Business Process Management)? 1419 What the heck is the difference between BPEL, BPMN, UML, IDEF and xBML? 1499.1 BPEL 1509.2 BPMN 1549.3 UML 1599.4 IDEF 1669.5 xBML 16710 Based on (anticipated) popular demand, more on auto-business requirements generation 17311 COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) software selection 18112 An added big, big takeaway 18513 A quick last summary 191Appendices 195Appendix A: xBML example – Fill ‘a vacant job position’ 195Appendix B: Potential knowledge sources 201Appendix C: Some government laws governing commerce 202Appendix D: Sample enterprise deployment what model 209Appendix E: BRD 211Appendix F: Can xBML be automated? 216Glossary 221Bibliography 235Index 237