Ripose newsletter - August 2001

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November 2001

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Business 101 ...
In May 1995, Ripose Pty Limited published a limited number of its book 'Breaking the systems barrier'. In this book we described how a business could rapidly clarify its logical solutions to support its objectives.

The structure of the book was built around a table of contents that has been refined over the past few years. Surprisingly enough, the only things that have changed over the past 7 years are the distillation of the table of contents and the quality of the deliverables.

These are the changes that have been made:

1995 thinking		2001 thinking
Conceptual phase	Goals & measures	Business objectives
	Knowledge	Unchanged
	Actions & systems	Strategies
Logical phase	Data architecture	Unchanged
Logical phase	Process architecture	Unchanged
Physical phase	Prototyping	Unchanged

Over the course of the next few months, a new and 'exciting' book/game will be released reflecting the cosmetic change in thinking.

As a prelude to this cosmetic change we would like to present the new table of contents and invite your comments.

Section	Dealing with
Introduction	The definition of business
	Mind map of a business
Strategic planning	Five strategic thinkers - Aristotle, Sun Tzu, Kant, Drucker and Porter
	Skills required to be a strategic planner
	Competencies
	Mind map of competencies
	Strategic initiatives	Objectives
		Knowledge
		Strategies
Logical design	Data architecture	Data analysis
		Data base design
	Process architecture	Process analysis
		Pseudo code design
Prototyping	Rapid application development

A number of techniques exist enabling the various levels of competencies to identify/clarify the components of the strategic initiatives. Not all techniques cover each of the strategic initiatives, nor do they necessarily follow the order in which they are depicted in this table.

The book describes each technique. The game allows you to select a single technique for each strategic initiative to help you cost the delivery of the results in both time and money.

You should then be able to compare the results to help you decide whether or not the techniques you chose will provide your business with the optimal results.

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