Introducing The OBASHI Methodology. OBASHI is a new way of thinking about ICT enabled business...

IntroducingThe OBASHI Methodology

OBASHI is a new way of thinking about ICT enabled business change.

The OBASHI Methodologyis published by the UK Government, TSO

The OBASHI Accreditationis managed globally by APMG International

OBASHI Softwareautomates the OBASHI methodology

OBASHIEnhances business clarity &

removes ambiguity from decision making

OBASHI Creates a visual map of how

your business works

OBASHI Identifies how data flows

between your people, process and technology

OBASHIAllows you to visualise & calculate the $ per second

value of how data flows through

your business.

Benefits ...?

• Provides a standard way of thinking about ICT.

• Creates the “Big Picture” of how your business works .

• Helps join the dots of how data flows between your people, process and technology.

• Acts as a common language and delivery platform for AXELOS Global Best Management Practice.

• Makes ICT easier to understand and communicate across the business.

How OBASHI works: the core components

Methodology

A way of thinking

Business & IT diagrams

(B&IT)

The Big Picture

Dataflow Analysis View

diagrams(DAV)

Join the dots

OBASHI Methodology: A framework that puts people, process and technology in context

Infrastructure - Routers , Switches, Hubs etc

Hardware – PC, Servers etc.

System – Windows 2000, Windows NT, etc

Application – Excel, Sage or bespoke software

Business Process – Monthly Balance

Owner – Accounts

B+IT diagram: communicate the business ‘Big Picture’ in a standard way.

Data Flow Analysis View: identify the value of information and connect business silos

OBASHI’s roots are in the Oil + Gas industry

Engineered Approach

$ per second flow

Pipe + Instrumentation Diagrams

OBASHI was born from a common problem

• Communicationgap identified

• No single document linked their data, information, business process and IT assets

• The Business and the IT department were unable to collaborate effectively

• See the big picture

• Increase understanding of the relationships between

its data/information, assets and resources in a

business context

• Understand the cost and value of the assets and

people that supported its information and data flows

Reality Wish

...which is even more prevalent today

• Dataflow & information flow is the life blood of every modern business

• Most business activity is underpinned by and can be related to single or multiple data flows

• Over 90% of cash is electronic

• It makes sense to understand, model, document, engineer, analyse and re-engineer data flows... and follow a traditional engineering approach to mapping information

Common languages make senseArchitectu

re

P+ID

CAD

OBASHI is a common language for data.

Methodology Software

The OBASHI Methodology has been developed into a professional accreditation

Foundation

APMG are the Accreditor of the AXELOS Best Practice management standards

*OGC – UK Government Office of Government Commerce

The OBASHI methodology dovetails with management best practice.*

UniversalLanguage

Common Delivery platform

* As detailed in the OBASHI Methodology manual

OBASHI software automates the methodology

• Intelligent, Dynamic Modelling tool

• Drag and Drop Swim lane U.I.

• Overcomes the constraint of the ‘column to column join’ in traditional RDBMS*

• We invented six new ways to relate information to ensure the methodology could be automated easily and quickly.

* Relational Data Base Management System

Build your own B&ITs

OBASHI software allows you to...

Create your own Data-Flow Analysis Views

Append critical data into the elements on your B&ITs.

Run meaningful visual and statistical reports to facilitate decision making ...

... across all aspects of business decision making.

Business Design

Business Optimisation

Business Monitoring

Understanding your business DNA means more effective planning ...

Business DesignSecurity

Connect silos

Outsourcing

SaaS

Data proliferation

Strategic Planning

Supporting change

... improving your chances of delivering efficiencies in a changing environment ...

Business Optimisation

Legacy Manageme

nt

Connect silos

Maximise IT value

Reduce IT waste

Transforming

productivity

Asset sweating

Identifying redundanc

y

Consolidation

.. and building the platform to make your business operations more effective.

Business Monitoring

Security

Legacy Manageme

nt

Compliance

Governance

Green IT

Risk Mgt

Business Continuity

OBASHI can help you solve the problems which inhibit business performance.

Business Design

Business Optimisation

Business Monitoring

Security

Legacy Manageme

nt

Connect silos

Outsourcing

SaaS

Data proliferation

Strategic Planning

Supporting change

Compliance

Governance

Green IT

Maximise IT value

Reduce IT waste

Transforming

productivity

Asset sweating

Identifying redundanc

y

Risk Mgt

Business Continuity

Consolidation

In summary… OBASHI

• allows you to see the big picture of how your business works

• understand how data flows through your people, process and technology

• means you will be able to design, optimise and monitor your business better.