OBASHI is a breakthrough in
Information Technology thinking that will enable you to clearly see
how your business actually works facilitating better decisions as a
result.
OBASHI allows you to create a
visual map that shows:
- how your business works
- the assets that make it work
- the inter-dependencies between those assets
With OBASHI you can design,
monitor and optimize your business better; in a way which is easy
to understand and, more importantly, easy to communicate across the
rest of the business.
Whether your challenge is reducing
costs, driving competitive advantage or both; you need to think
OBASHI.
The core
principle of OBASHI
OBASHI is based around a core
principle: that IT exists for one reason, namely, to manage the
flow of data between business assets.
Business resources (which include
people) and IT assets are either providers of data, consumers of
data or provide the conduit through which the data can
flow.
The role of IT is to support,
process and optimise the flow of data to maximise
business/organisational performance.
The OBASHI
methodology provides a framework and method for
capturing, illustrating and modelling the relationships,
dependencies and data flows between business and information
technology (IT) assets and resources in a business context. It is a
formal and structured way of communicating the logical and physical
relationships and dependencies between IT assets and resources
(Ownership,Business Processes, Applications, Systems, Hardware,
and Infrastructure) to define the
business services of a modern enterprise.
The OBASHI
Foundation Qualification
This level aims to measure whether
a candidate could act as an informed member of a management team
which is using the OBASHI® method to understand and assess an
organisation. To this end they need to show they understand the
principles and terminology of the method. Specifically they
should:
- Understand how OBASHI supports the Business Strategy
- Describe the benefits OBASHI can bring to an
organisation
- Understand the concept of dataflow. Be able to explain the
purpose and use of a DAV and describe how it is constructed
- Recall OBASHI Core Principles and Laws of OBASHI
- List and describe the concept of Layers and Elements in
OBASHI
- Be able to explain the purpose and use of a B&IT diagram
and describe how it is constructed (Including use of colour)
- Understand the laws of Digital Dynamics
- Understand the OBASHI Rules and Relationships (incl.
relationship persistence)
- Understand the concept of Logical and Physical models.
The OBASHI
Foundation examination format
- 50 Simple and Complex multiple-choice questions
- 60 minutes duration
- Closed-book
- 30 correct answers out of 50 are required to pass
(60%)
Following the successful launch of
the Foundation level of OBASHI, development work will start on a
Practitioner level qualification
