Strategies

On clicking the word 'Strategy' from the Conceptual compiler menu, the information architect will be presented with the following screen: The RA3 together with the CIO and/or CTO will use these modules to create the enterprise's strategies. By selecting Create a strategy from the above screen, the following screen will be displayed: This screen will enable the RA3 to select a single entity around which the strategy will be built. In my dissertation on strategies, I mentioned that there are only 5 strategies that need to be taken into account. This particular model was built before I discovered this phenomena, however the 2 strategies than could be amalgamated into one are 'Workflow Function' and 'Dance Activity Function'. Once a strategy is created, the majority of the work will be done in the tactical compiler. On selecting 'Tactics' from the 'Conceptual compiler menu', the following screen will be displayed: This is the real engine room of the strategy/tactic compiler and the RA3 will spend most of their time working here. On selecting the reports and export menu, the following screen will be displayed: These features will enable the RA3 to fine tune the tactical function of the enterprise. It is probably as important to get this right as it is to discover all the knowledge classes in the Knowledge modeling phase. Once the RA3 has defined all the relevant tactics (this is governed by the fact that no entity will remain without a tactic), all that is left for the RA3 to do is to prepare the releases and finally to move the highest priority tactical entities from a conceptual state to that of a logical state. Once this is done, the Conceptual phase is complete and the RA1, 2, & 3 can get together to complete the proof of concept and what was once a complex evolving object has now been functionally decomposed into a series of complex static objects. The next step is to convert these complex static objects into a series of simple static objects. This will be left to the RA4, 5 and 6 using the Logical compiler features.