tailieunhanh - business modeling with uml business patterns at work phần 8

, nó không phải lúc nào cũng dễ dàng để phân biệt giữa thông tin và điều, đặc biệt là khi cả hai xuất hiện trong cùng một mô hình. Trong quá trình xây dựng một mô hình kinh doanh, nó được phổ biến để phân tích và cơ cấu các nguồn lực và thông tin về những nguồn tài nguyên. | Structure Figure The structure of the Time-To-Customer pattern. Participants Inquiry is an object that represents an inquiry. This object initiates the Available process. Delivery is the product delivered from the Available process. Note that the delivery doesn t have to be a physical product it can be a service information and so on. Available process is responsible for making a delivery after an inquiry. The process is supplied with Resource X which can be people knowledge concepts or a sales prospectus. The resources that supply the Available process are produced by the Enable process. Resource X is the resource that supplies the Available process. Enable is the process that equips the Available process by supplying Resource X. Information knowledge and predictions about the market are the input to the Enable process. Consequences Applying the Time-To-Customer pattern should result in shorter lead-times and reduced restricted equity. With an efficient enabling process in place businesspeople can stay one step ahead of the market demand which in turn shortens the lead-times. Not buying and procuring items before selling and marketing them can reduce the restricted equity. Example The example shown in Figure presents a business that s modeled with the two important processes product-to-market and product-to-customer in this case a pharmaceutical company Pharmatica. Pharmatica develops it prescription drugs based on predictions for customers future needs. For quite some time it has been working on a drug called Sniftron for the common cold. Although Sniftron was planned several years ago and Pharmatica was certain that there would be a large demand for it the company waited to release it to the public because production wasn t possible at a cost that would result in a product that could be priced at an amount the customers would be willing to pay. Figure Using the Time-To-Customer pattern. Later however Sniftron was put into the product stage and .