Go with the flow

An introduction to OBASHI®

Claire Agutter

OBASHI® is a Registered Trade Mark in the United Kingdom and other countries

What’s important now?

IT and the business relationship

Money

Control

Hot topics – BYOD, cloud, sustainable

So what about ITIL®?

Restricted to IT in most organisations

Seen as ‘too complicated’ for the business

Business wants solutions to help them do their job

ITIL® is a registered trade mark of the Cabinet Office

And what is OBASHI?

Isn’t just an IT thing

Is an IT AND the business thing

– Ownership

– Business process

– Application

– System

– Hardware

– Infrastructure

OBASHI

OBASHI maps dataflows

Data is the lifeblood of the business

Quick visual representation of what goes where

Business perspective

– What’s important and what’s not

– Where to invest

OBASHI

OBASHI supports decision making

Removes ambiguity

Puts a price on data and dataflows through the business

What does it cost when data stops flowing?

OBASHI

IT perspective

– What supports the business

– What’s relevant

– What’s not

Business and IT Diagrams

Dataflow Analysis

OBASHI links to…

ITIL

PRINCE2

MSP

P3O

OBASHI and ITIL

Crown Copyright 2011. Reproduced under license from the Cabinet OfficeBased on SS Fig. 1.1 The ITIL service lifecycle

SS: invest, prioritise, plan and align

SD: reuse, optimise, align

ST: communicate, implement, align

CSI: justify, improve, align

SO: manage, refine, align

Who’s using it?

Resources

OBASHI.co.uk

APMG International – OBASHI training

Coming 2013: www.OBASHItrainingzone.com