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ISEM 525: Project 2 – Process Discovery and Modeling Points: 50 Organization: Group Discovery and Modeling Peneleope's Future Boxes has high hopes for its expansion and is depending on you to help it make the transition to a Digital Enterprise with efficient, value-producing business processes. To that end, CEO Penelope has arranged a meeting in which you will provide her company with the plan and results of your process discovery and modeling effort. Penelope will expect clear results in several areas. To satisfy her, you will need to perform the following activities. Assume that Penelope is moving from Stage 1 to Stage 2 in her original three-year plan (see Appendix A below). Deliverable: about 10 - 15 annotated Power Point slides with any necessary notes:  Process Elicitation Plan (15 points) – Select and justify methods for eliciting business process steps (including actors, resources, and any involved IS). Provide sample 'details' of any questions, documents, or meetings that would be required. You may wish to consult both Schedlbauer and Dumas, et. al.  Process Modeling Results (30 points) - Select two (2) of the more critical business processes from those identified in your Process Architecture (Project 1) and provide each of the following 'as-is' elements: a. Process context diagram b. Business use case diagram c. Process synopsis diagram d. Process narrative e. Work breakdown model f. BPMN 2.0 diagram  Reference Materials Used (1 slide for 5 Points): One slide that lists the materials that were used to develop this solution. This must include the following: o Specific topics in the text (chapter, section) that were helpful in this assignment o Outside materials (give specific links) on the Net that were helpful in this assignmentAppendix A: Company Overview: Penelope's Future Boxes Penelope has always been interested in computers, the Internet, and electrical engineering. A few years ago she decided to exercise her entrepreneurial spirit and venture out on her own. She established a small start-up aimed at capitalizing on what has become the open-source hardware movement. Her first designs were Raspberry-pi, Arduino, OLINUXINO, and BeagleBoard projects focused on household items, such as smart thermostats, garage door openers, household locks, and automated kitty-litter boxes. The orders have been coming in steadily and her business has grown and has become a stable company. Encouraged by her success, she has decided to go big and create a Digital Enterprise focused on the "Internet of Things" (IoT). Penelope is smart, but she needs help. She is aware that there already exist companies that are latching on to the IoT idea. She believes that a Digital Enterprise that thinks like a small company and stays close to the customer can succeed where larger, established firms diversifying into the IoT market may have trouble. She believes that she can create products that customers naturally want instead of what large companies think that customers want. Thus, she believes that she can create several standardized products, as well as many customized/personalized IoT products based on input from customers. Penelope, together with her management team, has been on a campaign of growth for the last three years, executing the steps outlined below. She started running the business from one of her three locations in the southeastern United States. Each location had a manager, a set of five engineers and programmers, and roughly 30 employees, most of which performed manufacturing tasks. Her plan for growth goes as follows: 1. By the end of the first year (assume that the year began in January), she planned to acquire the needed space to function as a headquarters for the main business. She hired a lead engineer, operations personnel, an office manager, a couple of lead programmers, and a lead plant manager for her current locations, which served as assembly plants. 2. By the end of the second year, Penelope opened similar pairings of office space and assembly plant in other regions of the US. Her belief was that different climates, topographies, and lifestyles would increase opportunities for innovative, custom-built IoT devices. 3. By the end of the third year, Penelope planned to dominate the IoT market in the U.S. by going national and international. She created her own line of opensource hardware products, instead of relying on the developers of Raspberry-Piand Arduino. She added to her growing business another installation which concentrated on manufacturing the new hardware. Project 1 Deliverable: Business Strategy and Business Process Architecture Deliverable: about 10 - 12 annotated Power Point slides with any necessary notes:  Business strategy of the company (25 Points). Use the typical management models (customers versus products, Porter, others) to capture the main ideas. Describe the business strategy. Create a list of roughly 10 business processes that you believe are critical in helping Penelope's company realize its goals. For each process, indicate which segments (departments, functions, etc.) of the business will participate in these processes.  Business Process Architecture (20 Points). Using the techniques and guidelines outlined in your (Dumas) text, create a process architecture for the company. Describe your selection of architecture components. You may have to make certain assumptions to do so. Please indicate what these are. The full architecture may have to appear in a separate file to be fully legible. Use your architecture to identify the processes of the business. Was your first list correct? What surprises did you see?  Reference Materials Used (1 slide for 5 Points): One slide that lists the materials that were used to develop this solution. This must include the following: o Specific topics in the text (chapter, section) that were helpful in this assignment o Outside materials (give specific links) on the Net that were helpful in this assignmentS