Abstract
analysis methodology that allows a vision of the whole business of a company as a set of interacting
Business Artifacts that operate upon firm resources.The concept of Business Artifact (BA) already
introduced and used for business process modeling within the Model Driven Business Transformation
(MDBT) framework is the basic element of our methodology. The theoretical foundations of the work
are provided by the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm theory (Barney, 1991).
Considering that, by definition, each Business Artifact has a data model, in which all the resources it
needs and uses during its lifecycle are specified, we want to identify which Business Artifacts are
strategically relevant for a company and prioritize them according to the Sustained Competitive
Advantage they could be able to provide. These key BAs should then be the target of any IT-dependent
strategic initiative, that should include actions aimed at improving or transforming these BAs in order
to achieve, mantain and exploit the company competitive advantage.
Recommended Citation
Della Bordella, Matteo; Ravarini, Aurelio; Wu, Frederick Y.; and Liu, Rong, "KEY BUSINESS ARTIFACTS: A METHODOLOGY FOR THE STRATEGIC MODEL WITHIN THE MDBT (MODEL DRIVEN BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION) FRAMEWORK" (2010). MCIS 2010 Proceedings. 22.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2010/22