The Innovation Base

Tom FranklinFranklin Consulting

Hilary Dexter

University of Manchester

Overview

• What is the Innovation Base• Archimate and the Innovation Base• Modelling exercise• The Innovation Base

What is the Innovation Base?

• A place• For storing and sharing models• Of any sort

– Formal or informal– Image, description or model

• To help people model for themselves• And• To share knowledge and experience

What is the Innovation Base for?

• To help projects make their (modelling) outputs more useful• To help programme managers understand their domains• To help analysts in their work• To support the e-Framework• To support communities of practice• To support interoperability and reuse

What is the Innovation Base for?

• To answer questions like:– Who is involved in student progression?– Who requires training in new health and safety procedures?– Which applications does the student record system interact

with?– Who uses the student record systems?– Which SUMs support student registration?

Archimate and Innovation BaseCreating and sharing our models of HEworld

Hilary Dexter and Tom Franklin

19.5.2009

Benefits of having a knowledgebase for models of HE world and all our ‘stuff’

• Making models brings clarity

• Exemplars to support new work

• Easy to find useful and interesting stuff

• Triggers for discussion

• Extends lifespan of outputs

• Eases project reporting

• Can re-visit and add to an area – the kb will grow and evolve

There are benefits to both contributor and consumer

Rightsizing the HeWorld Knowledgebase

• Lower barriers to contribution and consumption

• Build modelling capability across the sector

• Avoid vocabulary and granularity ‘issues’

• Enable collection of ‘usefully related’ materials

We need to:

So we aggregate elements into more general categoriesof ‘stuff’ that people will produce

Innovation Base (IB) is a simplified structure derived from an HE domain model;

Peoples’ models of things in HEworld are in UML, BPMN, Archimate, free text, sketches…These models will be kept in IB

IB: a smallish number of generous/inclusive buckets

Domain

Event

Rule Artefact

Information Transaction

Role Motivation

Competency

Lifecycle State

Lifecycle

Organisation

Service Application

Project

Quality Evaluation

Work

Joining things up

We want to make our models of things like business processes in such a way that we can make use of others’ examples and share our outputs.

Which buckets do we need for modelling a business process (and fitting it into an enterprise architecture)?

Domain

Rule

Artefact

Motivation

RoleOrganisation

Work

Activity: Model your process with IB cards

Guidelines for the activity:

• We need to be able to talk to each other about our issues in a

consistent way and know that we have a shared understanding of all

the parts of a particular situation.

• Using 5 key questions we can look at our pieces of the larger

HEsystem:

1) Where are we? (Domain and Organisation)

2) Who is here? (Role)

3) What are they doing and why? (Work and Motivation)

4) What things do they use and produce? (Artefact)

5) What controls their work? (Rule)

• Activity: build your own business process…

• We look for the concrete examples from our own areas and for the

links between them.

Topic, area of interest, discipline, environment

Domain

The Teaching and Learning domain of HE:

Subdomain: Programme

HEI, faculty, school, company, ad hoc e.g. EU project

Organisation

University of Poppleton: Teaching and Learning

Support and Quality Assurance

Set of responsibilities, position, job title, behaviour

Role

Programme Team

Recruitment and Admissions

Head of School

Faculty Quality Administrator

Faculty Committee

Finance

Marketing

External Advisor

Validation panel

VP Teaching and Learning

Goals, Mission, Vision, Benefits, Aims, Objectives

Motivation

Assuring :

•a convincing New programme rationale

•The business case – markets

•Appropriate timing of the proposal for the HEI

Activity, process, workflow, task, practice

Work

End-to-end new programme validation:

•Proposal in principle

•Develop proposal content

•Final approval

things in the domain, resources, outputs, documents

Artefact

•Proposal for approval in principle

• Proposal for approval of content

•Programme specification

•Report from external adviser

Policy, standards, guideline, procedure, business rule

Rule

School action plan to be provided

Faculty committee is chaired by Associate

Dean

A member of the Academic Quality staff will

attend

Internal advisers must be members of the

faculty in which the programme is based

The Innovation Base

Adding a New Model

Browsing

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Domains

Higher EducationThe Domain of Higher Education refers to a level of

education that is provided by universities, vocational universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges,

institutes of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools and

career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications.

Synonyms: University Education

Higher Education /Child Domains

(4)Sibling Domains

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Research

Libraries

Administration and Management

Teaching and Learning

Roles

Southampton Workspace Vice Chancellor

Pro-Vice Chancellor

Manchester Workspace Vice Chancellor Dean of Faculty

Deputy Vice Chancellor

Processes

Manchester Workspace UK Academic

Progression

Use Cases

Southampton Workspace Research Assessment

Exercise

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Domains

My Models (new workspace)

Southampton Workspace (edit) (new model)

Admissions System (Use Case) Admissions Process (BMPN)

Conference Peer Review (Activity Diagram)

David Millard

My Models

I am a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at the

University of Southampton. My research interests include Web

2.0, Hypertext Systems, and Knowledge Interfaces.

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