Alignment and Linkage

• Integrated Modeling identifies the inherent architecture of your business, combining its system, process and organization structures under a single framework.
• Integrated Modeling identifies the inherent architecture of your business, combining its system, process and organization structures under a single framework.
• Within the common architectural framework, linkages and interdependencies become clearly visible, making it easy to identify where alignment is most critical, and where gaps exist.

Process Improvement

• The architectural framework allows you to trace each core process workflow sequence from beginning to end, showing how each work activity relates to systems, organizations, and other processes.
  
• This provides a tool to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each link in a core process work sequence.
  
• When a change is planned for one process, the architectural framework makes it easy to determine how it will impact other parts of the business -- before the change is implemented.

Customer and Supplier Relationships

• The integrated model identifies all seller and buyer relationships between the enterprise and its customer and supplier markets.
• The integrated model identifies all seller and buyer relationships between the enterprise and its customer and supplier markets.
• Product core processes show precisely how the enterprise interacts with both the customer market and its individual customers, throughout the product lifecycle sequence.
• Resource core processes show precisely how the enterprise interacts with both the supplier market and its individual suppliers, throughout the resource lifecycle.
• These customer and supplier interaction structures can be used as analytical tools to evaluate and improve customer and supplier relationships.
  

Transition to E-business

• Integrated Modeling identifies all of the changes in business stucture required to sustain Baldrige performance excellence throughout the transition to e-business.
• The Integrated Model highlights the interdependencies among different parts of the business, to help avoid surprises and unintended consequences.