The Innovation Base
Tom Franklin
Franklin Consulting
Hilary Dexter
University of Manchester
Overview
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What is the Innovation Base
Archimate and the Innovation Base
Modelling exercise
The Innovation Base
What is the Innovation Base?
• A place
• For storing and sharing models
• Of any sort
– Formal or informal
– Image, description or model
• To help people model for themselves
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• To share knowledge and experience
What is the Innovation Base for?
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To help projects make their (modelling) outputs more useful
To help programme managers understand their domains
To help analysts in their work
To support the e-Framework
To support communities of practice
To support interoperability and reuse
What is the Innovation Base for?
• To answer questions like:
– Who is involved in student progression?
– Who requires training in new health and safety procedures?
– Which applications does the student record system interact with?
– Who uses the student record systems?
– Which SUMs support student registration?
Archimate and Innovation Base
Creating and sharing our models of
HEworld
Hilary Dexter and Tom Franklin
19.5.2009
Benefits of having a knowledgebase for
models of HE world and all our ‘stuff’
There are benefits to both contributor and consumer
• Making models brings clarity
• Exemplars to support new work
• Easy to find useful and interesting stuff
• Triggers for discussion
• Extends lifespan of outputs
• Eases project reporting
• Can re-visit and add to an area – the kb will grow and evolve
Rightsizing the HeWorld Knowledgebase
Innovation Base (IB) is a simplified structure derived from an HE
domain model;
Peoples’ models of things in HEworld are in UML, BPMN,
Archimate, free text, sketches…These models will be kept in
IB
We need to:
• Lower barriers to contribution and consumption
• Build modelling capability across the sector
• Avoid vocabulary and granularity ‘issues’
• Enable collection of ‘usefully related’ materials
So we aggregate elements into more general categories
of ‘stuff’ that people will produce
IB: a smallish number of generous/inclusive buckets
Domain
Work
Rule
Artefact
Lifecycle
Event
Service
Application
Organisation
Competency
Role
Information
Transaction
Motivation
Lifecycle
State
Quality
Evaluation
Project
Joining things up
We want to make our models of things like business
processes in such a way that we can make use of others’
examples and share our outputs.
Which buckets do we need for modelling a business
process (and fitting it into an enterprise architecture)?
Domain
Organisation
Rule
Artefact
Work
Role
Motivation
Activity: Model your process with IB cards
Guidelines for the activity:
• We need to be able to talk to each other about our issues in a
consistent way and know that we have a shared understanding of all
the parts of a particular situation.
• Using 5 key questions we can look at our pieces of the larger
HEsystem:
1) Where are we? (Domain and Organisation)
2) Who is here? (Role)
3) What are they doing and why? (Work and Motivation)
4) What things do they use and produce? (Artefact)
5) What controls their work? (Rule)
• Activity: build your own business process…
• We look for the concrete examples from our own areas and for the
links between them.
Domain
The Teaching and Learning domain of
HE:
Subdomain: Programme
Topic, area of interest, discipline, environment
Organisation
University of Poppleton: Teaching and
Learning Support and Quality Assurance
HEI, faculty, school, company, ad hoc e.g. EU project
Role
Programme Team
Recruitment and Admissions
Head of School
Faculty Quality Administrator
Faculty Committee
Finance
Marketing
Set of responsibilities, position, job title, behaviour
External Advisor
Motivation
Assuring :
•a convincing New programme rationale
•The business case – markets
•Appropriate timing of the proposal for
the HEI
Goals, Mission, Vision, Benefits, Aims, Objectives
Work
End-to-end new programme validation:
•Proposal in principle
•Develop proposal content
•Final approval
Activity, process, workflow, task, practice
Artefact
•Proposal for approval in principle
• Proposal for approval of content
•Programme specification
•Report from external adviser
things in the domain, resources, outputs, documents
Rule
School action plan to be provided
Faculty committee is chaired by Associate
Dean
A member of the Academic Quality staff
will attend
Internal advisers must be members of the
faculty in which the programme is based
Policy, standards, guideline, procedure, business rule
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Higher Education /
Higher Education
The Domain of Higher Education refers to a level of
education that is provided by universities, vocational
universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges,
institutes of technology and other collegiate level
institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools and
career colleges, that award academic degrees or
professional certifications.
Synonyms: University Education
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Libraries
Research
Teaching and Learning
Administration and Management
Roles
Processes
Use Cases
Southampton Workspace
Vice Chancellor
Pro-Vice Chancellor
Manchester Workspace
UK Academic
Progression
Southampton Workspace
Research Assessment
Exercise
Manchester Workspace
Vice Chancellor
Dean of Faculty
Deputy Vice Chancellor
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