OGA-032 practice question 7 of 10
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question ArchiCar has been a market leader in the premium priced luxury car sector for the last…
Full set: 12 questionsPlease read this scenario prior to answering the question ArchiCar has been a market leader in the premium priced luxury car sector for the last decade. Its product leadership strategy has brought superior products to market, and enabled ArchiCar to achieve premium prices for its cars. This strategy has been widely successful in the past, but recently competitors have been offering comparable products and taking significant market share. The governing board of ArchiCar has identified opportunities in emerging markets where the ArchiCar brand is associated with luxury and high performance products, but is thought to be too expensive for mass-market success. Based on this assessment, the board has made the decision to setup a subsidiary company to mass-produce affordable cars locally. This will be achieved by focusing on a strategy of operational excellence. Such a strategy is ideal for such markets where customers value cost over other factors. To facilitate this strategic transformation, the project has been divided into multiple phases within a five-year program. The initial phase, known as "Achieving Operational Excellence," is underway. The engineering team has begun devising an action plan to drive the necessary changes and outlining the technological conditions that must be met. The product architect has identified three current capabilities - industry-leading engineering, high-quality materials sourcing, and cutting-edge focussed R&D - along with their contributions to the new production philosophy. Moving forward, it has been determined that two out of the three current capabilities require revision. Materials sourcing needs to be adjusted to meet optimization demands, and R&D targets must align with future goals to enable affordable production. Additionally, process engineering is introduced as a fourth capability to shift the company's focus from products to a process-oriented approach. The Enterprise Architecture team has been tasked with migration planning, and identifying key work packages and deliverables. They have identified two transition states between the current and future scenario. The first transition aims to adjust current capabilities, including revising the R&D approach and procurement strategy. The second transition aims to shift from a product-centric mindset to a process-focused approach and adjust materials sourcing accordingly. It is important to consider existing supplier contracts that cannot be immediately canceled during this process. The Enterprise Architecture team has identified that the second transition must implement a process framework, in order to shift to a process focus and meet a number of requirements, including the requirement for end-to-end process thinking. As this requirement impacts procurement processes, it also impacts the procurement strategy. Refer to the Scenario You have been tasked with modeling the current capabilities of ArchiCar, identifying the capabilities necessary for the company to achieve Operational Excellence, and showing the motivations behind these changes Which of the following models best answers this?
The task asks for three things in one view: the current capabilities, the capabilities needed for Operational Excellence, and the motivation behind the change. Option D shows all three using valid ArchiMate notation:
- Current strategy: All three current capabilities (Engineering, Materials Sourcing, R&D) realize the Product Leadership course of action. They are combined through an AND junction (filled dot), because all of them jointly realize it.
- Future strategy: The three capabilities plus the new Process Engineering capability realize Operational Excellence through a second AND junction. This matches the scenario: two capabilities are revised and one is added, and none is optional.
- Motivation: Operational Excellence influences (++) the "Affordable products produced locally" goal. The requirements (Adjust sourcing, Realign R&D) and the principle ("Process is key") trace correctly to the goals and capabilities. ArchiMate 3.1 §5.5.1 requires every relationship entering and leaving a junction to be the same type. Option D respects this, with realization arrows on both sides of each junction.
A: Its junction notation is malformed and capabilities are connected inconsistently. It does not clearly show all four capabilities jointly realizing Operational Excellence. B: It uses OR junctions (hollow), which imply that any single capability alone realizes the strategy. The scenario requires all capabilities together. C: It sends influence relationships (++/–) into junctions whose outputs are realization relationships. Mixing relationship types through a junction is invalid ArchiMate.
1. The Open Group, ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification (C197), §5.5.1 "Junction" (AND/OR semantics; a junction must join relationships of the same type).
2. The Open Group, ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification (C197), §7.3 "Relationships with Core Elements" (capability realizes course of action).
3. The Open Group, ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification (C197), §6.4 "Relationships with Motivation Elements" and §5.2.3 "Influence Relationship".
4. The Open Group, ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification (C197), Appendix C.1 "Strategy Viewpoint" (capabilities, courses of action and motivation in one view).
5. Lankhorst, M. et al., Enterprise Architecture at Work, Springer, 4th ed., Ch. 5 "Modelling Language", https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53933-0
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