Deploy goals

The guideline organises goal deployment by studying the impact of the contextual forces on the current goals, eliciting and introducing the change goals reflecting the impact and envisioning alternative solutions.

Perform the following activities

Activity	Techniques and tools	Comments
Determine impact of a contextual force on a current goal	Business experts interview GroupSystem	There are five ways to type the impact of the contextual force on the current goal.
Elicit change goal and introduce it in the hierarchy	EKD-goal modelling editor	A change goal is elicited based on the type of impact and the goal being impacted.
Envision alternative goals	Business experts interview GroupSystem Patterns	A goal can be achieved in several alternative ways with respect to different factors (quality requirements, market opportunity, technology avialability, etc.). Envisioning alternative goals means describing all possible alternative ways for fulfilling the change goal.

One goal and its immediate sub-goals, a contextual force

Enterprise goal model