Sustainable Business Methods ensure that you address sustainability concerns across all aspects of your business and at every stage of the Sustainable Business Cycle. The methods focus on integrating strategy, architecture, and governance as follows:
Strategy: Identify potential disruptions and adapt your core Business Idea to keep it robust for all important, plausible scenarios; adjust your portfolio of initiatives accordingly.
Architecture: Design flexible business capabilities that can readily adapt to future disruptions, employing sustainable principles, models, standards, and implementation plans.
Governance: Incorporate sustainability into decision making, progress monitoring, and watching for signal events that impact your strategy, enabling you to adapt rapidly.
Capturing and implementing potential improvements revealed by the SEER framework requires methods that can take strategic directions and translate them into solid architectural and design principles, models, and standards. Sustainable Business Methods capture the business needs and strategies, fully represent them in the architecture and design processes, and track them throughout future lifecycle phases. Since sustainability implies the adaptability and flexibility to meet future challenges and opportunities, these methods impose constraints and “flex points” needed to sustain the Business Idea across multiple future scenarios.
