The Enterprise Business Motivation Model was created to bring together a number of different sources of conceptual input. The first source is the internal Enterprise Architecture team within the Microsoft corporation. This provides a real-world view of business motivation, and the ideas introduced in the model are colored by the experience of using the model in a practical environment.
The second source is the standards community, represented by the OMG and the Open Group’s efforts in describing a business motivation model in their standards efforts.
The third source is the literature of the business community, including influence from the writings of well known authors like Geary Rummler, Alan Brache, and Alexander Osterwalder.
The fourth source is the literature of the Enterprise Architecture community, including influence from the writings of well known authors like Jeanne Ross, Peter Weill, Steven H. Spewak, James McGovern, and Scott Ambler.
These sources are interesting, but they don’t speak in unison and most don’t attempt to cover the entire range of knowledge from business strategy and motivation through organizational structure, business process management, and information technology. Each source takes their own viewpoint, and solves problems in their own domain.
The Enterprise Business Motivation Model, by adopting and integrating ideas from these widely divergent sources, attempts to create a single approach for the understanding of business that represents the best practices available today for both strategic planning within a business as well as for IT alignment to business needs.