information assets relevant to the business activity.
There are several sources from which to identify and describe business processes and related information
assets. Good sources include:
• Business cases;
• Concepts of operations (CONOPS);
• Business functional specifications;
• Enterprise architecture documentation which typically describes an organization’s business
processes and related information assets in some detail;
• Discussions or interviews with business analysts and other individuals within related business
communities; and
• TBS’s Government of Canada Strategic Reference Model (GSRM) Service Reference Patterns
[Reference 16] may also be useful in identifying and describing business processes.
As illustrated in Figure 4, the output of this step is a brief description of the business processes and
related information assets of relevance to the business activity.