Business Engineering Cycle

Definition

A business engineering cycle is the cycle consisting of all phases during which the client organization’s business enterprise is [re]engineered.

Goals

The typical goals of the business engineering cycle are to:

• [Re]enigneer a business enterprise.

Objectives

The typical objectives of the business engineering cycle are to:

• Provide an overview to the entire business engineering effort in terms of its phases.
• Provide overall organization to the assoicated activities and milestones.
• Support top-level scheduling of activities, personnel, and resource acquisition.

Phases

The business engineering cycle typically includes the following phases:

1. Business Strategy, which is the first business engineering cycle phase during which the new strategies and and architecture of the customer organization’s business enterprise are developed.
2. Business Optimization, which is the second business engineering cycle phase, during which the new strategies and architecture of the customer organization’s business enterprise are placed into effect and continually optimized.

Figure

The following figure illustrates the business engineering cycle including its phases and relationship to application life cycles:

Guidelines

• Cycles and phases can be combined or decomposed depending on the need for these stages to better map to engagements and contracts between the various organizations.