Spotlight on Business Strategy & Solution Lifecycle Working Group
deliverables. It will also contribute and assist in the management and stewardship of the body of
knowledge gathered in support or as a result of the above activities.
The full list of BSSL WG initiatives past, present and planned is listed in the following table.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND SOLUTION LIFECYCLE WORKING GROUP PROJECTS:
Past, Present and Planned
The BSSL WG has already published the results of the following initiatives, and the outputs
are gaining traction in the wider industry:
Business Strategy and Innovation Framework (BSIF) is an IIC Technical Publication
covering, at a high level, all aspects related to developing and executing an IIoT
strategy. It covers: the setting of an appropriate strategic vision; IIoT project ideation,
prioritisation and initiation, and; the definition of an IIoT Centre of Excellence to
support the defined strategy. The BSIF was published November 2016, and available
on the IIC website.
The IIoT Project Toolkit (IPT) is a gamified project initiation workshop toolkit. It
includes game cards and a framework for the analysis of the relative complexity of
any IIoT project, and also a reference database of project experience. The toolkit
assists the further definition of any planned IIoT initiative and also highlights
necessary project team competencies.
The Reference Architecture Alignment Template is intended to assist IIoT project
managers effectively to use the IIC’s Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA).
It helps project managers identify how their projects map to the IIRA and to
understand how the IIRA maps to their projects.
The following initiatives are currently underway within BSSL WG:
Potential for the IIoT, which is an initiative to identify today’s leading edge and
innovative IIoT solution concepts that have potential to transform business models,
or to have a significant multi-sector economic or societal impact. The output will be a
White Paper outlining the full potential of the IIoT, and potentially a number of
webinars.
IIoT Maturity Model, under which work effort we are developing a 5-stage reference
maturity model artefact for the IIoT (the need for which was identified in the BSIF,
above). The maturity model is designed to be used by business managers and includes
in its scope all topics that a business must address to become a ‘best practice’ adopter
of IIoT.
Business Perspective on Security is an initiative to develop a framework that will assist
with the identification and dimensioning of possible risks that might flow from any
security breach. The ultimate aim will be to define an industry-accepted approach to
risk assessment and mapping to widely accepted security techniques, so that IIoT
security is ‘right sized’ given a pragmatic assessment of real world risks.
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