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Workbench Purpose
Use the Requests and Offers workbench to issue requests and offers to community sponsors where it makes sense to do so. The offerings portfolio of some community sponsors include services that are not pre-packaged as Growthware - for example financing, insurance and other professional services. You can use this workbench to raise a request for a particular community sponsor to provide you with a proposition and/or quotation for a required service or product that is not listed in the Growthware catalog. It can also be used to create offers that can be forwarded to a community sponsor, either for its own consideration, or alternatively for possible inclusion in such sponsor's Growthware catalog.
Requests and offers are usually raised and issued when the relationship with the particular community allows for such exchanges (in other words, where the related community sponsor has agreed to receive such requests - many of them do). A requests issued in this way is received in the sponsor's Community Management Portal, where it triggers relevant workflows; the request is evaluated and processed according to the business rules of the sponsor (an acknowledgement that the request has been received is typically returned from the sponsor). Offers are processed in the same way.
Foundational Concepts
About the Bizverse
The Bizverse is a controlled, Cloud-based community that allows member enterprises to collaborate and connect with partners, clients and their own people. Each participating member has its own Workspace (also referred to as a Reposistory) in the Bizverse Cloud.
About Workspaces
A Workspace is an organization-specific (private) digital storage area in the Bizverse Cloud that is shared between applications and users of that organization. In other words, a Workspace is a (Cloud-based) container of a particular organization's application data and other information (documents, images, profiles snapshots, etc.) as produced and used by the set of linked web applications and their users. By using web applications that are linked to the Workspace, users place data and information into (and retrieve same from), the Workspace. An organization typically has one Workspace (but may have more). Users are granted access to the portal applications of a specified Workspace - if a user has access to multiple Workspaces, (s)he would have to select the Workspace (using the Workspace Selector Control that is provided in the User Interface of the application), that is appropriate for the particular action such user wishes to perform. Once the Workspace is selected, it is set as the active Workspace and will remain in effect until another Workspace is selected. Users with multi-Workspace access need to be attentive to which Workspace is active to ensure that additions and edits are made to the correct data set.
About Bizverse Communities
A Community is a purpose-oriented collaboratory that is administered and managed by a community sponsor. Bizverse communities espouse a wide range of goals and aims, each community offering a unique value proposition to its members: a portfolio of products and services called Growthware that serves the community's particular objectives.
About the Enterprise Bizverse Profile
An Enterprise Bizverse Profile is composed of the Bio-sheet and snapshots of other information that is considered to be relevant for this purpose, such as the organization's Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Governance Framework, Strategic Objectives and so forth. In other words, a multi-faceted information dossier which, among other items of information includes the organization's history, number and quality of its human, financial, system and other physical resources. It reflects 'who and what you are' as an organization, and thus serves as a reference for your customers, employees, suppliers, investors, media and other stakeholders. It is especially valuable as a roadmap for growth. Appropriate elements of this profile can be selectively shared with business partners and clients via the Bizverse Object Exchange, should you choose to do so.
About Profile Snapshots
Profile Snapshots are historical information artefacts that reflect the different facets of an enterprise's profile as it existed at a particular point in time. Snapshots can be made of any object that is considered to be relevant for this purpose, e.g., governance frameworks and registers (Risk Register, Asset Register, Policies and Procedures, and so on), registrations, licenses, audits, evaluations, dashboards, analysis outcomes and situation assessments and more.
Workbench Architecture
Workbooks & Functions
A single instance of the Bio-Sheet is maintained per Workspace. In other words, there is only one Bio-Sheet for your organization which reflects its current information (you can take snapshots of this sheet each time it is updated should you wish to maintain a historical perspective of this information; if your organization is part of a group, each organization would have its own Workspace - you can use the Organization Hierarchy Workbook that is provided by the Enterprise Environment Workbench to show your organization's relationship to others in the group; a snapshot of this hierarchy can be added to the profile).
Besides the normal object attributes that are included with the Bio-Sheet (e.g., organization name, legal type, description, etc.), the workbook object model makes provision for multiple NAIC and SIC industry classifications, multiple executive and management resources, product brands, outside service firms and social media assets. A wide range of snapshot types can also be used to add additional facets to the profile, such as financial performance (e.g., balance sheets and income statements) and any of the outputs of the Enterprise Environment Definition Workbench (such as the organization's hierarchy).
Snapshots can take one of two formats; it can either be an instance of a specifically defined object type, or alternatively, it can be an undefined attachment. Undefined in this context refers to (image) attachments, where the details of the attachment are undefined (the snapshot instance is described in terms of the date, time, source and the 'kind of' snapshot is is, but the attachment's content elements are not defined).
When a snapshot is an instance of a specifically defined object type, it means that an Object Type definition exists which describes each element of the snapshot instance (in other words, a subtype definition is available for the particular snapshot, e.g., Balance Sheet, Income Statement, etc.). These snapshots are typically created using the functions provided by another Bizverse portal (for example, a Growthware offering that is provided by a certain Community sponsor may allow the user to develop a strategic enterprise development plan; using the facilities provided by such portal one would be able to take a snapshot of the resultant Strategic Portfolio, which can then be added it to the Enterprise's Bizverse Profile).
For more information, see Related Topics below.
Navigation & Processing Options
With the Enterprise Bizverse Portal active - www.bizverse.biz - use the Workbench Selector to activate the Enterprise Profile Workbench. Workbook objects and related structures that can be accessed once this workbench is active are as follows:
Enterprise Bio-sheet - use the Workbook Selector to pick this option from the list that is presented in the drop-down control; use the Edit button control located in the Workbook Toolbar to update the Bio-sheet information; use the Drill-Down button control located in the Workbook Toolbar to activate the Attributive Objects Pane which allows you to manage the following sub-components of the Enterprise Bizverse Profile:
Snapshots - click the Snapshots Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane to view the set of snapshot instances that are part of your organization's profile; with the Snapshots Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane active, double click the desired snapshot instance to open and view its content; use the Add Snapshot Instance Button control to add another snapshot instance; use the Delete Snapshot Instance Button control to remove and archive a selected snapshot instance;
Industry Classifications - click the Industry Classifications Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane to view the set of industry classification instances that are part of your organization's profile; with the Industry Classifications Tab active, double click the desired classification instance to open and view its content; use the Add Industry Classification Instance Button control to add another classification instance; use the Delete Industry Classification Instance Button control to remove and archive a selected classification instance;
Product Brands - click the Product Brands Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane to view the set of product brand instances that are part of your organization's profile; with the Product Brands Tab active, double click the desired product brand instance to open and view its content; use the Add Product Brand Instance Button control to add another product brand instance; use the Delete Product Brand Instance Button control to remove and archive a selected product brand instance;
Executives & Management - click the Executive & Management Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane to view the set of executive and management resource instances that are part of your organization's profile; with the Executive & Management Tab active, double click the desired executive and management resource instance to open and view its content; use the Add Executive & Management Resource Instance Button control to add another executive and management resource instance; use the Delete Executive & Management Resource Instance Button control to remove and archive a selected executive and management resource instance;
Outside Service Firms - click the Outside Service Firms Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane to view the set of outside service firm instances that are part of your organization's profile; with the Outside Service Firms Tab active, double click the desired outside service firm instance to open and view its content; use the Add Outside Service Firm Instance Button control to add another outside service firm instance; use the Delete Outside Service Firm Instance Button control to remove and archive a selected outside service firm instance;
Social Media Assets - click the Social Media Assets Tab in the Attributive Objects Pane to view the set of social media asset instances that are part of your organization's profile; with the Social Media Assets Tab active, double click the desired social media asset instance to open and view its content; use the Add Social Media Asset Instance Button control to add another social media asset instance; use the Delete Social Media Asset Instance Button control to remove and archive a selected social media asset instance;
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When a Bizverse Workspace is created (as part of the registration procedure), the Bio-sheet record instance is automatically created (in other words, it is created when you register a Bizverse Workspace for your organization). Once a user has been granted appropriate access rights, the Bio-Sheet can be accessed and updated.
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The attributive objects (or sub-components) of the Enterprise Profile (e.g., snapshots, product brands, executives & management, etc.) can be accessed and updated from this point in the portal's user interface. That is, from the Bio-Sheet display, use the Drill-down Button control to access the desired attributive object - the Attributive Objects Pane will appear with the attributive object options shown as tabs across the top of the pane; click the tab label to bring the related sheet into focus.
With the relevant attributive object sheet active, select and use the appropriate tool to perform the required action (e.g. add, edit or remove an instance of the active object type).
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