The Strategy Blueprint - A Strategy Process Computer-Aided Design Tool

Abstract

Abstract:Strategy has always been a main concern of organizations because it dictates their direction, and therefore determines their success. Thus, organizations need to have adequate support to guide them through their strategy formulation process. The goal of this research is to develop a computer-based tool, known as 'the Strategy Blueprint', consisting of a combination of nine strategy techniques, which can help organizations define the most suitable strategy, based on the internal and external factors that influence their business. The research methodology we adopted is design science. To visualize the Strategy Blueprint tool, we use a spreadsheet-based implementation. Our first evaluation of the tool in real-life settings indicates that the tool is both useful and easy to use.

From Business Strategy to Enterprise Architecture and Back

“…For many of these techniques Strategy, Motivation and some Business elements are sufficient. TABLE I presents the mapping between the strategy techniques and ArchiMate concepts, partially based on the papers by [14,27]. This mapping is used as a basis for the implementation of the strategy techniques in the software tool we have developed (Section IV).…”

“…Other relevant studies are the ones of [34] which define a model transformation between the BMC and ArchiMate language, [15] which propose a mapping of several strategy concepts to the ArchiMate language, and [27] which relates several strategy techniques to the ArchiMate language (including the BSC, SWOT analysis, BMC, etc.). While these studies consider similar aspects, they either focus on a limited number of strategy techniques or use aspects of the ArchiMate language in order to relate the strategy techniques to each other, rather than a complete integration to the ArchiMate language.…”