Organization Visualization
Business organizations exist as one system in a complex environment of systems of external/internal factors; those factors influence managements decisions on strategic choices (the means by which the organization responds or adapts to its environment). Organization Visualization refers to the methods and visual concepts employed in visualizing the business organization as a system. The organization is visualized as system with a purpose, a structure/form that follows from its intended purpose and the primary functions required to accomplish its purpose/mission. To support management decision-making, the organization visualization includes visualization of the organization's current value chain to understand the organization's actual strategy.
Visualizing Organization System and Environment
The organization system and its environment is visualized through the organization system structures and the organization's relationships to its external environment. The visual structures include:
The organization system structure is evaluated with respect to its performance and effectiveness in responding/adapting to changes in the conditions in the external environment. factors/forces that influence performance.
The Visualization system supports a visualization of the organization/enterprise as a system. It enables users to interactively visualize the organization by exploring and examining the organization's viewpoint models including hierarchical system decomposition view, social systems network view and organizational structures (form) view, value propositions view, environments view including stakeholders, customers, regulators, suppliers, competitors, community, etc.
Business organizations exist as one system in a complex environment of systems of external/internal factors; those factors influence managements decisions on strategic choices (the means by which the organization responds or adapts to its environment). Organization Visualization refers to the methods and visual concepts employed in visualizing the business organization as a system. The organization is visualized as system with a purpose, a structure/form that follows from its intended purpose and the primary functions required to accomplish its purpose/mission. To support management decision-making, the organization visualization includes visualization of the organization's current value chain to understand the organization's actual strategy.
Visualizing Organization System and Environment
The organization system and its environment is visualized through the organization system structures and the organization's relationships to its external environment. The visual structures include:
- Organization Structure - Management and functional structures
- Organization structure - Roles and responsibilities
- Organization Structure - Position structure, Decision Rights and Accountability
- External Environment Model - Environmental factors model
- Organization Goals and Objectives Model
- Organization and Environment Relationship Model -
The organization system structure is evaluated with respect to its performance and effectiveness in responding/adapting to changes in the conditions in the external environment. factors/forces that influence performance.
The Visualization system supports a visualization of the organization/enterprise as a system. It enables users to interactively visualize the organization by exploring and examining the organization's viewpoint models including hierarchical system decomposition view, social systems network view and organizational structures (form) view, value propositions view, environments view including stakeholders, customers, regulators, suppliers, competitors, community, etc.
The visualization models provide an interactive visual environment that enables users to explore and examine the business organization structures (forms) including: functional structure, position structure (decision rights and accountability), as well as the interactions/relationships with external environment factors such as: PESTEL (Political, Environmental, Social, Technology, Economic, and Legal) factors, industry and market factors, competitors, etc. The functional structure and decision-rights are manifestation of the current organizational strategy and strategy alignment to inform execution decisions. Users can explore and examine an organization's functional structure, reporting structures within each functional areas and departments/teams, organizational internal capabilities and interactions (response/adaptation) to environments factors.
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The organization visualization system provides the capacity to visualize and interactively explore the organization system's structures or form, organization capacity and capabilities and explore the changes in organization capacity development caused by pursuing a given strategic intent, set of strategic options and choices.
Operations Engine Visualization
Operational Engine is an abstraction of the system of operations management decisions about utilizing the operations systems to efficiently manage the organization's operational value chain. The operations engine is comprised of the system of processes that produce goods and services delivered to customers. The Operational Engine enables an organization to capture and integrate operational events and data from all functional areas, in the value chain, to inform operational management decisions about customers, suppliers, employees, and products. The value chain activities include production and supply chain activities as well as business function areas such as marketing, finance, sales, HR, and customer service.
The Operations Engine can be visualized in terms of the visualization of the simulation of its its value chain processes. Operations engine visualization (Visual Analytics) allows users and decision makers to study the behavior of resources under various system loads and gain insight into potential capacity throughput and bottlenecks. Visualization of the operations engine is very different from process animation which provides visualization of the flow of goods and services through production and/or service centers, and the buildup of inventory at storage location. Process animation can also help developers step through the execution of a process instance in order to debug potential model errors. Visual analytics enables interactive exploration and examination of the the simulation outputs and results. This makes it easy for users to consume simulation results (output) without having to be proficient in the underlying statistics and mathematics. The Operations engine simulation output visual analytics include:
- Production or operations output throughput chart
- Resource utilization and load factors charts - (Labor utilization efficiency and load factors charts, Equipment utilization efficiency and load factors charts, WIP Inventory Store utilization and load factors charts).
- WIP Inventory Levels Control Policy charts
- Process capacity utilization and idle charts
- Product/Service delivery performance chart
Visual Analytics provide systematic visualization of operations performance of the organization as system in creating and delivering value to customers. The visualization improves users' insight and understanding of the dynamic behavior of the organization in producing value and potential bottlenecks that constrain effective capacity. This visualization is especially useful when you need to address the "unknowns" in your business and make informed decisions on the impact of changes in demand, quality and safety standards policies, and workforce staffing levels.
Strategic Engine Visualization
The Strategic Engine component model is a 3-level hierarchy goals model of corporate, business and operations strategy layers of organization strategy with reinforcing relationships to functional strategies at each level in the hierarchy. The organization strategy goals model is an intentional goals model of the intended/deliberate corporate, business and operations strategy layers The goals model integrates the strategy hierarchy of the different levels of corporate, business and operations strategy levels into a coherent organization system model that aligns with the organization system purpose - defined by mission goals.
The visualization products include:
- Organization's Current State/Situation Visualization
- Organization's Target Future State/Situation Visualization.
- Organization's Strategic Gap Visualization - [Logical Conception of Gap, Implementation Gap, and Capacity Development Response]
- Organization's Performance Visualization
- Organization Environmental Factors Assumptions Visualization
- Organization's Strategic and Operations Performance Visualization - [Balanced Scorecard Dashboard]
- Cause-Effects Chains, and End State Visualization
- Strategic Risk Visualization
The End State and Effects chart visualization expresses the predicted/forecasted effects of a strategy/strategic option on influencing the behavior of actors in the environments such as stakeholders, and customers, suppliers, and competitors/adversaries. The visualization also includes the predictive analysis of the risks associated with the likelihood of not achieving the desired outcomes and effects from the strategy execution.