Value Chain Diagrams: High-Level View of Enterprise Interactions and Their Modeling with UML/BPMN and Archimate
The article explains how value chain diagrams provide a high‑level perspective of an enterprise’s direction and external interactions, outlines their purpose in linking stakeholders to change activities, and introduces UML/BPMN EAP profiles and Archimate as modeling approaches, while also promoting related community channels.
Value chain diagrams provide a high‑level view of an enterprise’s direction and how it interacts with the external world. Compared with the more formal functional decomposition diagram developed in Phase B (Business Architecture), the value chain diagram focuses on the impact of representations. Its purpose is to quickly associate stakeholders with specific change activities so that all participants understand the high‑level functions and organizational context defined by the architecture. Typically it shows a simplified business process diagram with each task’s value factors and required changes.
UML/BPMN EAP Profile
Function: describes a capability of the organization.
Sequence link: represents the ordering between functions.
Archimate
Value chain of a discount travel company
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