The Weston Group - Unicist Business Platforms

Unicist Business Platforms

Transforming Cost Centers into Business Units

Unicist Business Platforms are virtual business units that allow integrating work processes and business objects to generate predefined results. They are a materialization of the object driven organization and have been designed as adaptive systems in order to accelerate the growth of businesses. They allow the optimization of the integration of hardware , software and peopleware.

A Unicist Business Platform (UBP), as a “Virtual Business Unit” designed to produce results, is part of a real business unit but its results are measured independently. It is based on the Object Driven Organization methodology following the Client Centered Management meta-model.

All UBPs Include:

IT Platform with the business objects
Object Driven Organization
Business Process Modeling
Performance Management
Quality Assurance
Continuous Improvement

Implementation Process

Diagnosis
Definition of the business objectives to be achieved
Installation of the prototypers
Definition of the workflows
Use of the prototypers
Revision of the workflows
Development of the prototype
Monitoring of the processes
Final Platform
Outsourcing possibilities

UBPs are knowledge businesses

These business units are knowledge businesses whatever the type of business they belong to. This implies that the group that operates a UPB needs to have members with the know-how for the operation and a member who has the foundations of the processes.

Customers

UBPs might have two different types of customers:

External clients for the products or services they deliver to a market
Internal clients for products and services delivered internally

Profits

UBPs generate profits that are considered non-operational income by the company they belong to. These benefits have to be consolidated following the legal restriction of the country and the company.

Investments

UBPs require an investment in Hardware, Software and Business Objects. This investment has to generate an adequate ROI considering the UBP as a business unit.

Management

UBPs have a manager who is responsible for generating the defined added value and for obtaining the corresponding benefit. The manager cannot be the same person in charge of the business unit in which the UBP is integrated.

Prices

UBPs are productive units that include the necessary processes and objects to deliver added value to their clients. Their deliveries have a price that has to be competitive considering other alternative providers.

Plan B and Plan C

UBP need to have a quality assurance system that includes a plan B and a plan C to ensure the added value and the results.

Unicist Business Objects included in the Business Platforms
The definition of the business objects included in a platform depends on the objectives of a company, the characteristics of the market, and the available technology.

Five Eagles: Unicist Reliability System
Unicist object driven Change Manager
Unicist object driven Client Centered Manager
Unicist object driven Personalized Organization
Unicist object driven Project Manager
Unicist object driven Advertising
Unicist object driven CRM
Unicist object driven Market Laboratory
Unicist object driven Organizational Laboratory
Unicist object driven Distribution
Unicist object driven Innovation Manager
Unicist object driven Lifecycle Manager
Unicist object driven Image Manager
Unicist object driven Globalization Manager
Unicist object driven Segmentation Manager
Unicist object driven Talent Developer
Unicist Growth Manager
Unicist object driven Organization
Unicist object driven Manager
Unicist OEE
Unicist object driven Learning Manager
Unicist object driven Network Builder

Unicist object driven Entrepreneuring
Unicist object driven Enterprising
Unicist object driven Process Design
Unicist object driven Growth Program
Unicist object driven Control Manager
Unicist object driven Strategy Builder
Unicist object driven Efficacy Manager
Unicist object driven Marketing Manager
Unicist object driven Continuous Improvement Manager
Unicist object driven Quality Assurance Manager
Unicist object driven Decision Making
Unicist object driven Scorecard
Unicist object driven Synergy Builder
Unicist object driven Mergers Catalyst
Unicist object driven Future Scenario Builder
Unicist object driven Knowledge Manager
Unicist object driven Efficiency Manager
Unicist object driven Performance Manager
Unicist Corporate University
Unicist object driven Promotion Manager
Unicist object driven Maximal Strategy Manager
Unicist object driven Minimum Strategy Manager
Unicist Technical-Analytical Diagnostician
Unicist Fundamental Diagnostician
Unicist object driven Leadership

Using objects driven solutions to make businesses simple

Unicist Library for Business Architecture

Objects

Objects are adaptive systems that generate added value and save energy within the limits of their concept having a quality assurance system and a methodology to sustain alternative solutions.

The Unicist Objects provided are adapted to the business, the market and the scenario.

Unicist Business Objects are provided for the following uses:

Driving objects: To drive processes
Catalyzing objects: To accelerate processes
Entropy inhibiting objects: To inhibit the entropy of business processes
Inhibiting objects: To inhibit dysfunctional events in a business
Gravitational objects: To influence the results of processes