NarraText  Business Story Structure

The Business Story is generally initiated by an "inciting incident" (i.e. a crisis or quest for information). The background  for the incident is described in the Story Setting that preceded and led up to  the incident (crisis/quest). The story progresses to find a solution to mitigate the problem (or answer to a question) and to implement the results in order to resolve the crisis or to answer the question. The Business Story Structure presented here is an adaptation and extension of Gustav Freytag's  Pyramid (Dramatic Arc) designed to accommodate an actionable Business Narrative.

Notes: Story Parts- these are adaptations taken from Freytag's Pyramid with extentions from a 5-part structure, originally articulated by Freytag, to a 7-part structure to accommodate business story-telling dynamics. Time Line - this is the chronological sequencing of the story's alternating Event-State sequences.  Sometimes the story sequencing is based on Discourse Structure rather than Event (Chronological Structure) depending on the author's rhetorical motives. Story Lines - the text content usually tells a story that consists  multiple interwoven story lines, each line tracing the events and states of actors corresponding to business products, services, customers, vendors, employees, etc.  Individual story-lines can be extracted to tell the story they encapsulate. Extraction Vector - each story line can be represented by a vector consisting of story-line made up of story roles: Setting, Actor, Prop, Event, State, Activity, Goal, and Expository information. The extraction vector maintains the sequencing of information as it was captured from the original text.