Element - Business Resources Diagram and Organizational Chart

Definition

Business Resource

A business resource in Innovator for Business Analysts is understood as being all that is used in the company when executing a process or individual tasks. It can be an IT resource, a concrete person, a role or an organizational unit, to name but a few.

Resources That are Not Business Resources

As well as the business resource described above, there are other element types which can be used as resources in an activity: UML actors and UML components. Both element types are not the focus of the business resource diagram or org chart but also show a resources potential, the only difference being that a different modeling language is used - UML. The actor can be used in a role, they can also represent a position or organizational unit - it depends on the modeler's interpretation.

Components can also be a resource, e.g. an IT resource or organizational unit. As this is down to interpretation, the UML elements themselves are not part of the business resource diagram; this only contains the model elements specially needed for this purpose.

If you interpret these elements as resources, you should also be able to use them as resources to e.g. assign them to a task or lane - this is why Innovator does not differentiate when using an element as a resource whether it is a business resource in the closest sense of the term or whether the potential resources are actors or components.

Icon

The business resource icon shows a diagram with a resource icon.

The org chart icon shows a diagram with a hierarchy icon.

Use

Business resources diagrams are used to show any number of business resources and the relationships they have with each other. You can use business resources diagrams to model everything relevant to relationships between your business resources.

Org charts are a special type of business resource diagram which only describe the organizational structure; they only contain organizational units (which includes positions and groups) and people who can be assigned to the organizational units. You can model the organizational structure with the org chart.

Elements in the Organizational Chart and Business Resource Diagram

The following model elements can be shown as nodes and edges in business resource diagrams or org charts:

Icon		Model Element	Brief Description
		Organizational Unit	An organizational unit is human resources responsible for tasks in an organizational structure, e.g. a department. The smallest organizational unit is a position. Organizational units emerge during the course of task analysis (theoretical analysis or the task as a whole) and then task composition (compilation of sub tasks). This process is called job creation.
		Group	A group is a collection of at least three positions for sharing the completion of a task.
		Administrative Position	An administrative position is an organizational unit that only participates in solving a task indirectly by supporting an instance. Administrative positions can be established on most levels of the hierarchy.
		Executive Position *	Executive positions are positions equipped with implementation competencies but without managerial competencies. i.e. they cannot issue directives to other positions. They only have decision competencies that affect their own scope of application.
		Managerial Position *	Managerial positions can be identified by external decision, directive and control competences. Essential criteria includes making external decisions, implementing decisions in applications and external control of executions. A property to be considered when mapping managerial positions is the span of supervision, i.e. number of immediately subordinated employees.
		Assistant Position *	Assistant positions are generalized assistant managerial positions with occasional tasks without external decision and directive competences. There is not normally a fixed given field of activity for these types of jobs (e.g. Managing director assistant).
		Role	A role specifies tasks, responsibility, expectations and requirements of business partners at one point in the organizational structure. A person takes up a position in the form of a role.
		Person	A person is a concrete responsible person assigned to a role in an organizational structure.
		Employee	An employee is a person that belongs to an organizational unit in an organizational structure.
		Hierarchical Subordination	An organizational unit's relationship with another organizational unit
		Affiliation	An organizational unit's relationship with a person
		Assign to a Person	Assigning a person to an organizational unit
The following can only be viewed in the business resource diagram:
		Business Resource	A business resource is a means used in the company to execute a process or individual tasks.
		IT Element	An IT element is a resource used in the company to execute a process or individual tasks.
		Application *	An application is a user-driven software for supporting processes.
		Application system *	An application system is a group of similar software for supporting processes.
		Relationship Between Business Resources	Relationship Between Business Resources
		Role Requirement of an Organizational Unit	An organizational unit's relationship with a role
		Role Assignment	Assignment of a role to a person

* You cannot directly create these positions. You must first create a position, group, administrative position, business resource or organizational unit.You can then change the resource type in the Properties tool window.

* You cannot directly create these IT elements. You must first create an IT element.You can then change the resource type in the Properties tool window.