Identifying Business Needs

Identifying your business needs consists of noting each business problem, goal, or scenario, and the related progression of actions required to resolve it.

For example, if your business need is to process customer orders, you might note the following actions:

1. Receive order.
2. Route order to appropriate departments for processing.
3. Fulfill order.
4. Generate data for invoices.
5. Update inventory records.
6. Generate invoice statements.

The following illustration shows a sample depiction of the business need and its related actions:

When you have completed this stage, move on to Identifying Activities in a Business Process. This documentation uses the Customer Order Processing scenario throughout the remaining stages.