Proposal to add New Strategy Layer Element: "Strategy Event"
Proposal to add new "Strategy Event" to Strategy Layer
Rationale
The existing Strategy Layer elements mostly provide concepts analogous to their more detailed counterparts in the Business / Application / Technology / Physical / Implementation & Migration layers, however the concept of an Event, which is present in most other layers is not currently available in the Strategy Layer.
The addition of a Strategy Event element would provide some advantages including:
- Providing consistency / completeness among available elements in most layers
- Providing the ability to explicitly define strategic event-based strategies, for example: using Course of Action elements to represent contingent strategies that are triggered by certain strategically significant Strategy Events (e.g. Pandemic, Cyber Attack, Regulatory changes, etc.)
- Better support for the ability to model strategic roadmaps where Strategy Events can represent significant strategic milestones. For example, a roadmap could be represented with Strategy Events triggering Courses of Actions, which may trigger Strategy Events indicating that strategically significant milestone(s) was/were achieved (e.g. "Merger completed").
Proposed Element / Alternate Shapes / Allowable Relationships among Strategy Elements