Business Motivation Model

Initially developed by the Business Rules Group (BRG),{{cite web |url=http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/ |title=Home |website=businessrulesgroup.org}} in September 2005, the Object Management Group (OMG) voted to accept the Business Motivation Model as the subject of a Request for Comment (RFC). This meant that the OMG was willing to consider the Business Motivation Model as a specification to be adopted by the OMG, subject to comment from any interested parties. Adoption as an OMG specification carries the intention that the Business Motivation Model would, in time, be submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as a standard.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/bmm.shtml|title=BRG: Business Motivation Model|work=businessrulesgroup.org|accessdate=23 May 2015}}

In August 2008 version 1.0 was released by OMG.

In May 2015, version 1.3 of BMM specification [http://www.omg.org/spec/BMM/1.3/ version 1.3 of BMM specification] was released and as of May 2015 it is the latest stable release.

“BMM captures business requirements across different dimensions to rigorously capture and justify why the business wants to do something, what it is aiming to achieve, how it plans to get there, and how it assesses the result.”{{cite web|url=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/08/0401_amsden/|title=Capturing requirements with Business Motivation Model, IBM Rational RequisitePro, and IBM Rational Software Modeler|work=ibm.com|accessdate=23 May 2015}}

The main elements of BMM are:

• Ends: What (as opposed to how) the business wants to accomplish
• Means: How the business intends to accomplish its ends
• Directives: The rules and policies that constrain or govern the available means
• Influencers: Can cause changes that affect the organization in its employment of its means or achievement of its ends. Influencers are neutral by definition.
• Assessment: A judgment of an Influencer that influences the organization's ability to achieve its ends or use its means.

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• Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR)

Other related frameworks are:

• POLDAT
• Zachman Framework
• Business framework

• Business model
• i*
• Motivation
• Strategy Markup Language

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite journal | last = Berkem | first = Birol | title = From The Business Motivation Model (BMM) To Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) | citeseerx = 10.1.1.180.3295 | journal = Journal of Object Technology | volume = 7 | issue = 8 | date = 2008 | pages = 57–70 | doi = 10.5381/jot.2008.7.8.c6 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Feglar | first = Tom | display-authors = et al | title = Advances in decision analysis and systems engineering for managing large-scale enterprises in a volatile world: Integrating benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) with the business motivation model (BMM) | journal = Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | date = 2006 | pages = 141–153 | doi = 10.1007/s11518-006-5003-9 | s2cid = 107288379 }}
• {{cite web | last = Malik | first = Nicklas | url = http://motivationmodel.com/download/EBMM%20Report%20v42.pdf | title = Enterprise Business Motivation Model | work = Full Model Documentation, version 3 | date = 2009 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122203/http://motivationmodel.com/download/EBMM%20Report%20v42.pdf | archivedate = 2015-04-02 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Malik | first = Nick | title = Toward an enterprise business motivation model | journal = The Architecture Journal | volume = 19 | date = 2009 }}
• {{cite journal | author = OMG Team, B. M. M. | title = Business motivation model (bmm) specification. | journal = Technical Report DTC/06–08–03 | publisher = Object Management Group | location = Needham, Massachusetts | date = 2006 }}

{{Commons category}}

• [http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/bmm.shtml The Business Motivation Model] Business Governance in a Volatile World, Release 1.3, Business Rules Group (2007)
• [http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_11/column6/index.html From the Business Motivation Model to Service Oriented Architecture], by Birol Berkem, Journal of Object Technology vol.7, no.8– (2008)
• [http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/second_paper/BRG-BMM.pdf The Business Motivation Model Business Governance in a Volatile World, Release 1.3, September 2007]

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