OBASHI® is a breakthrough in Information Technology thinking that will enable you to clearly see how your business actually works facilitating better decisions as a result.
The OBASHI® methodology is sequential and consists of 6 layers:
Lesson 1: Introducing OBASHI®
Lesson 2: OBASHI® and business strategy, digital flow and digital dynamics
Lesson 3: Core principles
Lesson 4: Business and IT Diagrams and Dataflow Analysis View
Lesson 5: Elements and layers
Lesson 6: Relationship rules
Lesson 7: Relationship types part 1
Lesson 8: Relationship types part 2
Lesson 9: Techniques and standards
Lesson 10: Physical vs. Logical
Lesson 11: Modelling using OBASHI®
Lesson 12: The OBASHI® exam
OBASHI® allows you to create a visual map that shows:
Our 30 day online course contains 12 easy to absorb lessons covering OBASHI® terminology, structure, concepts and value.
With OBASHI® you can design, monitor and optimise your business better; in a way which is easy to understand and, more importantly, easy to communicate across the rest of the business.
ITSM
With OBASHI®, ITSM professionals, can now, accurately demonstrate the value of IT to the business and can take a more pro-active role in improving business performance.
Project Management
Not only do project management professionals now have a tool that underpins every stage of the Project Lifecycle, in a real business context, OBASHI® makes it easier to demonstrate the financial risk of potential upstream and downstream impact to all relevant stakeholders.
Programme/Portfolio Management
When managing programme and portfolio challenges, OBASHI® software is a cost effective way to create a dynamic blueprint to communicate and value the strategic benefit of ICT enabled business change to C-level decision-makers.
Data Quality and Management
The insights gained by better identifying and managing how data flows through business assets, increases your ability to focus on those dataflows that most positively improve process, performance and profitability, whilst removing those that don’t.
Enterprise Architecture
OBASHI® can help put the complexity of technology in context, in a way that senior business decision-makers will understand. The board don’t need to know the detail but OBASHI® offers a standard way to communicate why they need it.
Operations
The operational implications are clear: OBASHI® software will effectively enhance your ability to maintain output levels when managing change, as well as increase productivity from existing assets.
Training
OBASHI® software will become the “de-facto” way to apply the OBASHI® methodology. It is a practical working tool that will help best management practitioners, everywhere, overcome the day-to-day challenges of executing ITIL®, PRINCE2®, MSP® and P3O®, in the real business world.
Service Providers
OBASHI® software is unique and can play a vital role at both pre-sales and solutions stage. It can help you cost effectively scope potential client challenges, ensuring you reach a shared understanding of the problem quicker; provide a start and end point for the scope of any project; and can also complement existing offerings to deliver a better integrated solution.
This increased clarity can help smooth the delivery of integrated solutions as it has been developed to directly address the key issues behind the under-performance of ICT enabled business change projects.
Business Leaders
Improving business performance is central to driving profitable growth. The increased clarity and insight gained by using OBASHI® software, means that you’ll be better placed to deliver competitive advantage in an increasingly inter-connected global market place.
Business Managers
Most organisations are characterised by consistent change and growing complexity which makes just “doing your job” increasingly challenging. OBASHI® software helps remove the ambiguity from day to day decision making, as it can help you identify the gaps and overlaps of how different business silos do or don’t interact.
OBASHI® Foundation Online (30 Days) Includes:
Your access duration time starts as soon as you access the course, or after 28 days - whichever is sooner.
WINDOWS
MAC
Adobe Flash Player 10+
Compatible speakers/headphones.
We suggest the use of the Firefox web browser for the best educational experience.
To take your web based exam, you will need a computer with a webcam, a microphone and a reliable internet connection.
You will also need administrator rights to install the software that will be used to monitor the exam session.
You will also need photo identification (passport, government ID or equivalent). If your exam includes a document to be printed (for example ITIL Managing Across the Lifecycle case study), the printer will need to be in the room where you take the exam.
Please note, in addition to your webcam, some examination institutes will require you to have a small mirror or reflective surface. The proctor will ask you to hold this up to show that there is nothing attached to the webcam or laptop itself.
For a successful exam, you will need:
| MINIMUM | RECOMMENDED | |
| Web Camera | 640×480 resolution | 1280×720 resolution |
| PC Users | Windows XP | Windows 7 |
| Mac Users | Mac OS X or higher | Mac OS X 10.7 Lion |
| Internet Download Speed | .768 Mbps | 1.5Mbps |
| Internet Upload Speed | .384 Mbps | 1.5Mbps |
| RAM | 1024MB | 2GB |
Acceptable browsers are:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10
Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave must also be installed before you begin the exam.
There are no mandatory prerequisites for the exam.
This course does not require any existing knowledge of OBASHI®.
Exam Duration: 60 minutes
Exam Format: Closed Book, multiple choice
Exam Delivery: Online, webcam proctored
Exam Pass Mark: 60% (30/50 questions)
Proctored Exam
There are no professional qualification credits associated with this course.
OBASHI® Foundation Qualification
Once you have successfully completed the examination, you will recieve the OBASHI® Foundation Qualification.
