Prior to the engagement and/or during the current state understanding, business requirements may have emerged that need to be taken into account in the future state design. At the start of the future state design phase an intake and stock-take is performed of the existing collection of requirements, resulting from the current state understanding phase. For each business requirement a review on the requirement is performed such that the requirement adheres to a minimum level of quality in terms of completeness, clarity and terminology.

A business requirements is only valid in case it adds value: All process activities must add value either for the customer and/or the business. A process activity is not justified when it is not backed-up by a customer and/or business requirement.

Note: Remind that added value is not always in € explained but could also be political, social conscious or environmental.

Value added customer requirements imply requirements for which the customer is willing to pay for.
Value added business requirements originate from the organization strategy, but also arise from legislation (e.g. SOX compliancy).