Chapter 2 Keypoints

• DID recognizes that Business is driven by specific and generic motivational factors, the Mission of the enterprise and the Capabilities needed to fulfil the goal and the Need and Value of the services that will be required for the enterprise to operate efficiently. This is the business model.
• The DID model for BIM is constituted by four domains: Governance, Strategy, Improvement, and Operation. This is the operating model.
• Each domain and associated activities can be viewed from four perspectives: these are the perspectives of Business, Data, Services and Technology. This is the enterprise architecture.
• The framework has no beginning or end, and there is no hierarchy between the activities of information services design and management, but coherence. This is the core of the DID model.
• DID helps to interpret, categorize, demonstrate coherence in the context, show the needs and involvement of stakeholders and ask the right questions in relation to the way the enterprise is structured.
• The DID model can be applied in the following four ways:
• As an aid to analyze in which management domain certain issues play, or to understand why certain issues are not fully resolved, so that insight is gained into possible solutions (moving counterclockwise around the model).
• To shape and further develop and improve information management issues within the organization (moving clockwise).
• From mission and vision to design and layout: from “inside to outside”.
• To address specific issues such as improving security, improving the customer experience or improving usability of business applications.
• Practical and direct application (kick-starting): “from the outside in”.