186 ◾ Improving Business Process Performance
To support this role, it’s not enough to merely use technology as a means to an
end, but rather as a driving force of the business. e business must have access to all
the necessary underlying architecture it requires from IT without effect to the busi-
ness services it needs to supply. OMG is taking a leading role in this charge through
the Business Ecology Initiative—an initiative that brings together best practices in
process management to develop and deliver on the actionable architecture.
An actionable architecture is one that provides the business with a number of
important attributes, including:
Quality: To ensure that business products and services are of competitive sub-
stance, and proce