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Purpose:
The primary purpose of the ValueStreamViewpoint is to present a coherent visual representation that focuses on how value is created, progressed, and delivered in the context of the enterprise’s strategy. It provides insights into the motivations behind strategic decisions and reveals the capabilities that underpin these value creation activities.

Core Concerns:

Stakeholder Alignment: How do the strategic efforts of the organization align with the needs, desires, and expectations of its key stakeholders? What outcomes are stakeholders expecting, and how does the value stream aim to deliver on these expectations?

Strategic Capabilities: What are the foundational abilities or capacities of the organization that enable the value creation process? How do these capabilities support or interact with the various stages of the value stream?

Value Creation and Flow: How is value produced, enhanced, and delivered across the enterprise? This concerns the sequence of activities that cumulatively produce the desired outcomes for stakeholders.

Organizational Context: Given the composite elements, this viewpoint may also touch upon how the value streams and capabilities are grouped, categorized, or located within the broader organizational context.

Example:

the example above shows a ValueStreamViewpoint for an insurance company, where each stage in the value stream is served by a number of capabilities. Between these stages, we see the ValueFlows with associated BusinessObjects & Values, and at the end the Outcome that this value stream realizes for a particular stakeholder.

In summary, the ValueStreamViewpoint provides a strategic lens, offering stakeholders a visual narrative of how value is created, based on the enterprise’s capabilities, and how this creation aligns with the motivations and desired outcomes of its stakeholders. It gives an abstracted yet holistic view, allowing for strategic decisions, analysis, and alignment checks. The composite elements further provide a way to understand the enterprise’s structuring or geographical distribution of these strategic components.

Purpose: The Actor Cooperation Viewpoint in ArchiMate aims to model how actors collaborate and work together to achieve business goals and objectives, and to capture the social and organizational aspects of an enterprise. This helps to provide a clear understanding of how different actors are connected and how they contribute to the overall goals of the organization.

Core Concerns: The core concerns of the Actor Cooperation Viewpoint include modeling the roles and responsibilities of actors, their collaboration and interaction, the information and functionality exchanged between them, and the interfaces through which they interact. By focusing on these core concerns, the Actor Cooperation Viewpoint can help identify opportunities for improving efficiency, reducing costs, and creating value for the organization. It can also facilitate communication and collaboration among stakeholders, providing a common understanding of the organization’s social and organizational aspects and their interdependencies.

Example:

The Actor Cooperation Viewpoint is a perspective in the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language that focuses on the relationships and interactions between actors (people, organizations, or systems) within an enterprise. This viewpoint is used to model how actors collaborate and work together to achieve business goals and objectives.

In the Actor Cooperation Viewpoint, actors are represented as rectangular shapes with labels that describe their roles and responsibilities. Relationships between actors are shown as lines connecting the actors, with labels that describe the nature of the interaction.

The Actor Cooperation Viewpoint includes several concepts for modeling different aspects of actor collaboration, including:

1. Roles: A role is a specific set of responsibilities and behaviors assigned to an actor. Roles can be modeled to show how different actors collaborate and contribute to business processes.
2. Collaboration: Collaboration is the act of two or more actors working together to achieve a common goal. Collaboration can be modeled to show the actors involved, the goals they are working towards, and the interactions between them.
3. Interaction: An interaction is a communication or exchange of information between two or more actors. Interactions can be modeled to show the flow of information and the roles and responsibilities of each actor involved.
4. Interfaces: An interface is a point of interaction between two actors, such as a user interface between a person and a system, or a service interface between two systems. Interfaces can be modeled to show the information or functionality exchanged between actors.

Overall, the Actor Cooperation Viewpoint is useful for modeling the social and organizational aspects of an enterprise, and for understanding how different actors collaborate and work together to achieve business objectives.