The Innovation Base Tom Franklin Franklin 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 Base Creating and sharing our models of HEworld Hilary Dexter and Tom Franklin

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 categories of ‘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 MotivationRole Organisation 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

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Hom e Browse Domains Higher Education The 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 (0) 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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