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	<title>Enterprise Business Motivation Model</title>
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	<description>Dedicated to understanding and modeling the business architecture of an enterprise</description>
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		<title>Using the EBMM for Strategy Development</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/04/using-the-ebmm-for-strategy-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your business seem to lurch from one strategy to the next, from year to year, with no clear goal for what to do next, or why?  If so, you need a business architect.
One of the chief goals of Business Architecture is to insure that the efforts of a business, or business unit, are aligned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Level View of the EBMM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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When first approaching the Enterprise Business Motivation Model, it helps to start with the highest level objects and to see the model as a fairly simple construction.
The EBMM is, first and foremost, a way to describe a complex business that allows interesting insight to be gained.&#160; It is a tool, a competitive weapon, to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Process and Directive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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This view of the Enterprise Business Motivation Model is concerned with the operations of a business.&#160; When change occurs, it nearly always plays out through impacts in the operations of a business: in the business processes executed by the business and the business policies and rules that govern those processes.
The following diagram illustrates the various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Model</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/03/business-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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The business model is a collection of elements that represents one way in which an enterprise makes (or intends to make) money.&#160; It is a combination of factors, not a single element, that together represent each of the key interactions that the enterprise will have with its environment.&#160; 
Those interactions are illustrated in the diagram [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Model Elements</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/03/business-model-elements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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The elements that make up a business model are briefly described in the table below.&#160; See Business Model to for a description of how these elements come together to form the business model(s) within the Enterprise Business Motivation Model.




Element
Description


Required Competency
An area or group of business capabilities where the business must excel in order for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Unit and Business Unit Capability</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/03/business-unit-and-business-unit-capability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickmalik</dc:creator>
		
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A business unit is a coherent set of teams and departments, usually structured in a hierarchy.&#160; Typically, a business is divided into business units, each with their own set of responsibilities.   The role of a business unit is to provide resources (money, staff, infrastructure, governance) to enable business processes to occur.
A business unit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use the EBMM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickmalik</dc:creator>
		
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A business motivation model is a structured method used to understand and ‘model’ a complex business.&#160; To understand how someone would use the EBMM, it is helpful to understand the overall context.&#160; What are we trying to accomplish with the model, and what does the model do for you?
Consider some of the following problems:

You are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction and Overview</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/03/introduction-and-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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The Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) is a conceptual information model, described using UML, that captures the relationships between the business drivers, business models, business processes, and business units that make up a typical commercial organization.
Use this page to find more information about the EBMM on this site.
(Note: While this site is under construction, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sources of Influence</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/03/sources-of-influence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickmalik</dc:creator>
		
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The Enterprise Business Motivation Model was created to bring together a number of different sources of conceptual input.&#160; The first source is the internal Enterprise Architecture team within the Microsoft corporation.&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driver</title>
		<link>http://motivationmodel.com/wp/index.php/2009/03/driver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickmalik</dc:creator>
		
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A driver is an objective that the business would like to achieve, often representing a change from the status quo.&#160; It may include principles that guide action, or more tangible and measurable goals and strategies that describe the expected results in measurable terms.
(Click on the image below to see it full size)
 
The driver is [...]]]></description>
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