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Goal/Objective/Service Diagram in Enterprise Architecture Modeling

The Goal/Objective/Service diagram defines how business services contribute to strategic goals, links services with drivers, objectives, and measures, and can be visualized alone or with a matrix to aid impact analysis and system evolution in enterprise architecture.

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Goal/Objective/Service Diagram in Enterprise Architecture Modeling

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Goal (Goal) / Objective (Objective) / Service diagram defines how services contribute to achieving business visions or strategies.

The diagram links services with their drivers, goals, objectives, and measures, allowing enterprises to understand which services impact specific performance aspects and provides qualitative input on high performance of a service.

It clearly shows the relationship between business services and corporate goals, useful for managing system evolution and impact analysis; combining it with a matrix improves readability for large systems, and users may choose either representation.

Another approach is to draw separate diagrams for each business service, showing its connections to tracked goals.

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Business Service : Represents a service offered by the business, which can be realized by one or more IS services.

Goal : The enterprise’s objectives.

General Traceability Link : Ensures that the source of a trace is found on the target goal during definition.

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