Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for modeling the relationship between a company's business performance metrics and information technology service costs. In one embodiment, a plurality of business architecture component descriptors and a plurality of measurement component descriptors are provided. Each descriptor includes at least one variable, corresponding to one of: a business metric, an information technology resource metric, a cost metric of an information technology resource, a service metric of an information technology service, or a cost metric of an information technology service. Business architecture components and measurement components are modeled from the descriptors. These business architecture components are coupled by a qualitative connector, and the measurement components are coupled by an executable connector defining a computable dependency between measurement components.