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What is 8-Omega?

Posted by Chris Adams

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Categories: Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, SDLC, Process, and Methodologies

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8-Omega a business change framework conceived to aid organizations in the transformation and improvement of their business processes. 8-Omega addresses 4 key perspectives:

Strategy

People

Process

Technology

While 8-Omega considers technology as a key perspective, it also ensures that technology is not overemphasized within business process transformation by considering it within the context of the other 3 perspectives.

Additionally, 8-Omega transitions through 8 stages or lifecycle phases, hence its name. Each of the 4 key perspectives is considered throughout every stage or lifecycle phase. These phases are:

Discover

Analyze

Design

Integrate

Implement

Manage

Control

Improve

For those analysts that are familiar with the 5 DMAIC phases of Six Sigma, these phases will look similar. That’s not a big surprise since both are frameworks or methodologies for improving and designing better processes.

The 8-Omega framework was first introduced by Steve Towers of the BPM Group.

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