Understand EKD-CMM Routes
Overview                        Examples of routes                             Step&Guidelines 
Overview

Roughly speaking, a route is characterised by the sequence of strategies it uses. What makes a route specific are the strategies selected in the route to fulfil the two EPI : Elicit Enterprise Goal Structure, Conceptualise Enterprise Business Process Model.  More precisely, a route is a sequence of steps, each step corresponding to the achievement of an intention according to the selected strategy.

The EKD-CMM electronic guide book proposes three examples of routes. If these are not adequate for your own organisational change management project, you should construct your own EKD-CMM route through the EKD-CMM road map.

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Examples of Routes

The table below sums up the three examples of pre-defined routes refered to as "Top-Down" route, "Bottom-Up" route and "Goal-Driven" route.
 
 

    Strategy
Route
Goal deployment Evaluation Process clustering Analyst driven Participative modelling
Top-Down 
   T3    
T1     T2     T4 
Bottom-Up 
B4 
B5 
B2 
B1    B3 
 
Goal-Driven G3 G4   G2 G1
 

As illustrated in the figure below:

- In the "Top-Down" route, the "first" step consists of  eliciting the future goal structure and the second of conceptualising the future BPM. In other words, the first "shifting" between the two levels of concern is "from" the enterprise goals "towards"  the enterprise business processes. The name "Top-Down" reflects this first shifting in the EKD-CMM product.

- In the "Bottom-Up" route, the "first" step consists of conceptualising the current BPM and the second of eliciting the current goal structure. In other words, the first "shifting" between the two levels of concern is "from" the enterprise business processes "towards" the enterprise goals . The name "Bottom-Up" reflects this first shifting in the EKD-CMM product.

- In the "Goal-Driven" route, "all" steps consist of processing with enterprise goals.
 

Clearly, the two labels "Top-Down" and "Bottom-Up" were selected in regards to the movement from processes to goals whereas the "Goal-Driven" label stresses the fact that this route remains at the goal level.

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Steps and Guidelines

In the table below, each step Ti, Bj or Gk is named by the intention it aims to achieve completed by the strategy it uses to achieve it. The name of the step refers to the page providing the guidelines to support the step. Guidelines to perform each step are accessible by the name of the corresponding modelling strategy (the blue underlined statements in the table below).
 
 

T1 Elicit Future Goal Structure from Start following Participative Modelling Strategy
T2 Conceptualise Alternative BPM from Future Goal Structure following Participative Modelling Strategy
T3 Conceptualise Most Suitable BPM from Alternative BPM Scenaria following Evaluation Strategy
T4 Conceptualise Future BPM from Selected BPM Scenario following  Participative Modelling Strategy
T5 Stop from Future BPM following Completeness Strategy
B1 Conceptualise Current BPM from Start following Analyst Driven Strategy
B2 Elicit Current Goal Structure from Current BPM following Process Clustering Strategy
B3 Elicit Future Goal Structure from Current Goal Structure following Analyst Driven Strategy
B4 Elicit Change Goal Structure from Current Goal Structure following Goal Deployment Strategy
B5 Select Most Suitable Change Goal Structure from Change Goal Structure following Evaluation Strategy
B6 Stop from Change Goal Structure following Completeness Strategy
G1 Elicit Current Goal Structure from Start following Participative Modelling Strategy
G2 Elicit Future Goal Structure from Current Goal Structure following Analyst Driven Strategy
G3 Elicit Change Goal Structure from Current Goal Structure following Goal Deployment Strategy
G4 Select Most Suitable Change Change Goal Structure from Change Goal Structure following Evaluation Strategy
G5 Stop from Change Goal Structure  following Completeness Strategy
 
It can be noticed that the same guideline is  used in different routes. Guidelines  are shared by the different routes to apply EKD-CMM.

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