Welcome to the Standard Business Community of Practice
The Standard Business Community of Practice (COP) is an informational webBook for professionals who have and share the same basic and fundamental professional interests and practices in managing and controlling the development and operation of a company or business idea.
The Standard Business COP is intended for executives, managers, architects in the field of enterprise architecture, and other leaders and people who practice, are involved in, are stakeholders of, want to learn about and advance the practice of enterprise architecture as applied to developing, operating and improving the capabilities of an enterprise, an organization, a program or a project.
The Standard Business COP is differentiated into discipline-based communities-of-common-interests aligned with the differentiation of the standard capabilities all enterprises have, need and use, and with the standard abilities all enterprises produce and acquire:
Enterprise Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help executives, enterprise managers and enterprise architects focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of enterprise-level development and enterprise-level operations.
Business Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help business managers and business architects focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of business development and business operations.
Process Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help process managers and process architects focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of business process development and business process operations.
Information Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help information managers and information architects focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of business information development and business information operations.
IT Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help IT managers and IT architects focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of IT development and IT operations.
System Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help system managers and system architects to focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of system development and system operations.
Service Management COP
A source of basic information and reference to help service managers and service architects to focus on, understand, communicate and advance practices related to the management and control of service development and service operations.
About the Standard Business COP
COPs are organizations which form and evolve, focus on and advance the practice of the associated profession. The practice-of-interest is related to a professional discipline requiring a set of skills, abilities, experience and knowledge associated with the purpose and function their practices serve.
Within the context of an enterprise situation, there are many practices, organizational and structural boundaries, and functional needs and terminologies which vary from job to job, organization to organization and enterprise to enterprise. Practitioners may fill one or multiple roles and roles may also be subdivided into specialty roles as organizationally needed. The variations in the combinations and subdivisions of organizational titles, organizational positions, organizational roles and organizational responsibilities are enormous.
All this variation in organizational definition often results in miscommunication and misunderstanding of “WHO is responsible for doing WHAT” during collaborative exchanges between practitioners of different enterprises, organizations, programs and projects.
The Standard Business COP helps to solve collaboration issues due to differences in organizational need and terminology by providing a free, open and hassle-free source of common, basic and fundamental definition for use in communicating and understanding capability management practices across a wide range of generically-common practitioners with specific organizational differences. Organizational differences work at keeping communities separated and compounds confusion, as is the case with open professional forums, most especially social-media forums where participants, knowledge, ability, needs and interests vary greatly within and across multiple communities.
Standard Business utilizes the enterprise system to clearly and logically differentiate COP interests into integrated communities of common interest, focus, goals, objectives and needs based on what practitioners practice and not on what practitioners are called. This promotes community within the community and through reference to and use of capability management information, promotes proper integration with supporting (cross-functional) communities and practices for the collective benefit of all communities.
Through Standard Business definition, a common terminology for functional roles, responsibilities and work products is established and set by URL for on-line reference and use by practitioners in practicing and communicating what they are practicing, and understanding and communicating what other practitioners are practicing, independent of their title, to who they report and what they are organizationally assigned to accomplish.
Standard business definition also identifies the connections and dependencies between capabilities, for use in managing and controlling integrated activities and for use in consideration of changes to capabilities and the resultant impacts and needs on resources and other capabilities.
Please see the overview and standard capabilities for additional details on capabilities and capability management.