OBASHI - OBASHI Training

The Knowledge Academy OBASHI 2 day course covers the following topics:

Introduction

OBASHI® is a breakthrough in Information Technology thinking, which enables you to clearly see how your business works which in turn will facitate better decisions throughout the organisation. This course trains delegates in the methods of Obashi, in order for them to improve the decision making process within their business.

OBASHI® allows you to create a visual map that shows:

• How your business works from top to bottom
• What the assets are that make it work
• Shows the inter-dependencies between the assets

OBASHI® will make things clearer and help you make better decisions because it has been designed with one thing in mind; to help people improve how their organisations perform by documenting and modelling how people, process and technology interact to make a business work.

The OBASHI® methodology is sequential and consists of 6 layers:

• Ownership
• Business Process
• Application
• System
• Hardware
• Infrastructure

OBASHI® is designed around four key concepts : “with Clarity and Vision you can Develop and Improve!”

• Clarity allows you to create easy to read diagrams which help remove ambiguity from business decision making.
• Vision allows you to anticipate issues and challenges which can prevent a business achieving it goals.
• Develop is about enhancing business capability through successful programme and project implementation.
• Improve is about enhancing your business performance through better operational management.

With OBASHI you can design, monitor and optimise your business better; in a way which is easy to understand and, more importantly, easy to communicate across the rest of the business.

Whether your challenge is reducing costs, driving competitive advantage or both; you need to think OBASHI.

When you book onto your OBASHI course you will be provided with the OBASHI book, clear pre-course & joining instructions. The pre-course is currently estimated to take 1 to 1.5 hours.

OBASHI® Qualification Overview

Foundation Level

This level aims to measure whether a candidate could act as an informed member of a management team which is using the OBASHI® methodology to understand and assess an organisation. To this end they need to show they understand the principles and terminology of the method.

Specifically they should:

• Understand how OBASHI supports the Business Strategy
• Describe the benefits OBASHI can bring to an organisation
• Understand the concept of dataflow. Be able to explain the purpose and use of a DAV and describe how it is constructed
• Recall OBASHI Core Principles and Laws of OBASHI
• List and describe the concept of Layers and Elements in OBASHI
• Be able to explain the purpose and use of a B&IT diagram and describe how it is constructed (Including use of colour)
• Understand the laws of Digital Dynamics
• Understand the OBASHI Rules and Relationships (incl. relationship persistence)
• Understand the concept of Logical and Physical models.