Last several weeks picking up my R&D around business design and construction.  Most of the research has been around translating physical product engineering methods to work on intellectual product design and development.  This was a line of R&D I was doing at IBM years ago that show lots of promise before IBM Research was downsized.  Today as Business Models have become identified as highly valuable commodity the engineering of these verse ad hoc creation could be the next big productivity gain in industry.  The slide below are some of the concepts I’ve been using in my practice with great success aligning IT initiatives with business strategic intent.   Not sure this slide will make it as is for the business design and reengineering course I’m building but as lest I got some of the concepts recorded