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Assignment Week 7
Thomas C. DePew
American Military University
BUSN320: Principles of E-Business
Dr. Charles Beverley
20 August 2023
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Assignment Week 7
When designing an e-business scenario it is certainly important to develop a concise method for analyzing or designing it. However, when it comes to analyzing or designing it mainly deals with monetary proficiency of the e-business. Now there could already be architectures and technology in place that could be used within the scenario upon analyzation of the current business structure. Now in the analyzing steps it could be discovered that there are one or more processes that may be considered excessive and because they are excessive, they need to be removed. On the other hand, some processes just might need a little tweaking or updating in order to run effectively. Now that we have completed the analyzing steps it could be discovered that a complete deconstruction and reconstruction is needed in order to add efficiency to the new processes. Scope determination, scenario classification, global analysis/design, dependency analysis, leading aspect selection, and detailed analysis/design are all considered when developing and acting
upon our concise and clear method. Looking at analyzing or designing an e-business scenario, this starts with the scope of the scenario in terms of parties and activities within those parties (Grefen, 2015)
. Once the
scope of the scenario has been accomplished then it is broken down into categories such as party types, objects, and time scope. Once the scope of the scenario has been determined and the classification is assigned only now can the BOAT analysis and design take place. Once we start with the BOAT aspects the first step is to complete an analysis where the dependencies are analyzed (Grefen, 2015)
. Now that this has been completed, we are analyzing the findings between identified elements and the BOAT aspects (Grefen, 2015)
. From here a comprehensive analysis or design is conducted. Now this should go without
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saying but within all these steps diagrams or models should be built and used to illustrate the reports. Once the more significant overall aspects have been identified the overall framework they need to be described in greater detail, these aspects are also known as “leading characters”. Now while there is normally only one leading character, there could however be two that emerge post analysis. Scope determination this is where the organization chooses which sub organizations will be included and which ones will not be included, also which activities the organizations
will or will not participate in is decided during this process. When this is all done correctly the organizations will have their orders. If this is not done correctly it is just an empty shell
and the first step needs to be redone for it to work. Time scopes are also completed during this process if the overall time scope presents two very different time scopes, then the scenario was too broad and the first step needs to be redone (Grefen, 2015)
.
Now that we have completed the analysis, we need to put it down on paper somehow. We can do this by using the BOAT element dependency diagram or (BEDD) for short. This diagram describes each element and how they depend on the BOAT framework
individually. Now this is based off the wheel model from BOAT (Grefen, 2015)
so it is easy to understand. It is safe to say that this diagram should be used throughout the entire analysis
process. Your business needs to prepare for the future, how to do this we have to analyze past or future developments. When analyzing past developments, a single pint is chosen let’s call this point A and point B is selected and is present day. This compares the two points by replacing one point with another and compares them. When looking into the future you need to be extremely careful when selecting points in time (now, near, and far
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