Based on the analogy of urban town planning, the Casewise IT City Planning model has been created to describe all of the domains within an organization and help improve business performance and agility.
Designed for organizations across all market sectors, the model is functional tool for business architects and those working within an enterprise architecture environment in helping to improve business and IT effectiveness.
The model is built around four key layers which form the core components of a typical enterprise:
- The Business layer focuses on Business Process Analysis and describes an organizations primary business process
- The Functional layer is a conceptual view of the functions hosted by different business lines in terms of IT systems allowing an organization to align its business and IT operations
- The Application layers objective is to draw up a unique and comprehensive inventory
- The Technical layer includes details both technological and hardware components enabling an asset list to be drawn up detailing all of the IT items within an organization
This four layered structure means business experts can help describe the organizational processes, architects can build a functional overview, IT experts will model the application cartography and technical experts can create an infrastructure map.
By implementing an IT City Planning project, organizations can improve the performance and agility of an IT operation and help detect any complexities and redundancies enabling for fast and concrete IT cost reductions to be made.
The model itself contains all IT City Planning Meta Model, a set of graphical representations, diagram templates and a real example. As a “ready-to-use” environment, the model allows organizations to quickly accelerate business and IT effectiveness projects.