What is OBASHI®?
“Seeing the big picture” is vital to making the right strategic decisions.
Being able to “join the dots” and understand how your assets interact, in order to get more out of them, is key for operational decision makers. OBASHI® is a break-through in Information Technology thinking that allows you to do both. You can create a dynamic map of how your organisation works, then identify and value how data flows between your business assets.
OBASHI will make things clearer and help you make better decisions because it has been designed with one thing in mind; to help people improve how their organisations perform by documenting and modelling how people, process and technology interact to make a business work.
The OBASHI methodology is sequential and consists of 6 layers:
- Ownership
- Business Process
- Application
- System
- Hardware
- Infrastructure
These layers are mapped out in a Business and IT diagram (B&IT) which provides the framework to store this information usefully.
The OBASHI B&IT diagram is a universally useful tool because it helps simplify business complexity in a way which everyone can see and understand. For the first time you will actually be able to see how activities, processes and the supporting technical infrastructure are linked to deliver the required business outputs. If you can see and understand the challenges that your business face, then you are better placed to make the right decisions in order to help make your business better.
OBASHI dovetails extremely well with the OGC Best Management Practice suite as it provides a delivery mechanism and acts as a common platform to tie the Best Practice products together. Furthermore, for the first time, business leaders, at every level, will understand the DNA of their business and how it works.
OBASHI practitioners will be at the forefront of connecting the silos that are inherent within every business and removing the ambiguity which has always hindered corporate decision making.
