Design Thinking Business Analysis : Business Concept Mapping Applied

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Design Thinking Business Analysis; Business Concept Mapping Applied; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1: Introduction; Part I: Design Thinking Business Analysis; 2: Understanding the Business; 2.1 Understanding the Business Using Concept Maps; 2.2 Information, Data and Business Rules; 2.3 Going into Details: Business Rules; 2.4 Good Definitions are Important; 2.5 What Do Concepts Actually Look Like?; 3: Design Thinking for Business Analysis; 3.1 Business Analysis: Understanding Business Information; 3.2 Design Thinking: Where Does It Come from?; 3.3 Designing Other Things than Products

3.4 Dealing with Wicked Problems3.5 Design Thinking for Business Development; 3.6 Business Synthesis; 3.7 Where Does Concept Mapping Come from?; 3.8 When Do We Need Tools Like Concept Mapping?; 4: Business Analysis Redefined; 4.1 Overview of the Method; 4.2 Preparing for the Analysis to Synthesis to Design Flow of Events; 4.3 Top Down: The First Workshop; 4.4 Explorative Workshops; 4.5 Ideation Workshops; 4.6 Generalization and Specialization; 4.7 Levels of Abstraction; 4.8 Implementation Workshops; 4.9 Agile Approach; Part II: Business Concept Mapping

5: Where to Find Meaningful Business Information?5.1 Start with Your Business Model; 5.2 How to Identify Business Concepts; 5.3 Concept Mapping Brainstorming Workshops; 5.4 Excel: Where Meaning Lives!; 5.5 The Chart of Accounts is full of Meaning; 5.6 Applications and Databases Might Be Meaningful, Too. . .; 5.7 Reports; 5.8 Documents and the Internet Are Full of Meaning; 5.9 Take Control of What Your Business Means!; 5.10 Business Dialects; 6: How to Do Concept Mapping; 6.1 Concept Mapping Explained; 6.2 What Are Business Objects?; 6.3 Properties of Business Objects

6.4 Definitions and Other Specifications6.5 Structured Concepts; 6.6 Layout of Concept Maps; 6.7 Dealing with Logic; 6.8 When to Stop?; 6.9 The Concept Mapping Tool Par Excellence; 6.10 Real Life Examples of Concept Maps; 6.11 General Company Structure; 6.12 Shipping; 6.13 Property Management; 6.14 Car Dealership; 6.15 Public Sector Example; 6.16 Concept Harvesting; 6.17 Standard Business Concept Definitions; Part III: Business Innovation Using Mapped Business Concepts; 7: Concept Mapping and the Next Generation IT Paradigms; 8: Opportunity: Reliable Business Information and MDM

8.1 Data Profiling8.2 Master Data Management (MDM); 9: Opportunity: Information Valuation; 10: Opportunity: Meaningful Business Intelligence; 11: Opportunity: Business Rules Automation; 11.1 Concept Maps Versus Business Rules: Revisited; 11.2 Business Rules Extend the Concept Maps; 12: Opportunity: Reusable Business Information; 13: Opportunity: Open Information Sharing; 14: Opportunity: Pull Instead of Push; 15: Opportunity: NoSQL and Big Data; 16: Think Big, Start Small: Deliver Value to the Business; 16.1 Simple Tools that Work; 16.2 Tested Approach

16.3 Benefits of Business Concept Modeling

10.1007/978-3-642-32844-2 [DOI]

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