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Welcome to the dedicated Business Architecture Section of BPMInstitute.org.
Business Architecture is defined as "A formal blueprint of governance structures, business semantics and value streams across the extended enterprise."
As with the above definition, which encompasses not only IT but the business infrastructure, this BA Section will address a broad range of topics. We will connect these topics through articles by a variety of guest authors as well as presentations and working sessions by industry thought leaders and practitioners at our BA Conference Series.
Topics covered will include many of the most cited issues around Business Architecture. This includes: - Business Architecture Requirements and Strategies
- Business / IT Alignment
- Strategic Application & Data Architecture
- Model-Driven Architecture
- Architecture-Driven Modernization
- Deployment Strategies: Making BA Work
Architecture-Driven Modernization: Transforming the Enterprise
Courtesy of: Tactical Strategy Group
For a number of years, systems modernization been has providing benefits to organizations seeking to analyze software architectures in support of tactical systems initiatives such as software maintenance. Modernization has also delivered benefits for project teams seeking to migrate from obsolete or aging languages and platforms to more modern environments.
While success stories abound for...
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Business Architecture: Scaling SCOR® to meet your needs
By: Geoffrey Balmes, Senior Business Architect, Collaborative Consulting, LLC
I have been in this business for 27 years and somehow never managed to do any supply chain work. So when a client asked me what I knew about the Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR1 ), developed and endorsed by the Supply-Chain Council (SCC), I had to admit “nothing.” So, being a good consultant, I set about familiarizing myself with SCOR: I did some reading, downloaded some PDFs, and...
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THE ROLE OF A BUSINESS ARCHITECT: A formula for strategic alignment and tactical execution
Featuring: Craig Jones, Manager, STS Processes and Governance, Sprint Nextel
This presentation will highlight, how in response to corporate synergies, execution management and dysfunction, IT launched a project to implement a consolidated IT platform for Finance, HR and SCM activities, without a BA structure. It will summarize the pitfalls of the plan, and then detail the structure that was put in place and the ensuing success factors associated with the successful launch...
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Business Architecture Conference
DC June 25-26 info@brainstorm-group.com Tel: 508-475-0475
Co-Chaired by Gregg V. Rock, Founder and Editor, BPMInstitute.org, Ken Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist, The Ken Orr Institute, and William Ulrich, President Tactical Strategy Group, BrainStorm’s Business Architecture Conference Series presents a holistic approach to the ongoing challenge of aligning functional, data and technical architectures with business strategies. For organizations that are struggling to gain the most from major IT investments, the BA Conference Series delivers new insights into leveraging leading edge technologies, existing systems and business requirements.
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Business / IT Architecture Alignment: Turning Business Strategy into Actionable Results
Presented by William Ulrich, President, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc.
Course Description: Executives have mandated deployment of new strategies and the need to get more productivity from their workforce. This translates into new product and service deployment, business unit consolidation, new market exploration and a myriad of other actions. These activities, in turn, spawn a demand for infrastructure upgrades and technology redeployment. Unfortunately, the gap between business strategy, essential requirements and delivery of actionable results is growing.
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BA 101: Introduction to Business Architecture
Presented by David Heidt, Managing Partner, Enterprise Agility
Course Description: What does Business Architecture mean to your organization? How do you enable it to create value for the organization? What pieces need to be in place to ensure its success? What skills and techniques need to accompany a successful BA effort? These questions and many others need to be carefully considered while embarking on the journey of creating a business architecture within your organization. Learn more about this course.
Business Architecture Integration, Innovation and Case Study Model Review
Presented by Ralph Whittle, Co-Author of Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link between Strategy and Results
The Business Architecture Integration, Innovation and Case Study Model Review class describes an approach and method for building an architecture of the business. It explains how to build and integrate your core cross-functional processes, sometimes called value streams, with all the architectures of the enterprise and the corporate strategy. Learn more about this course.
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Enterprise architect critical of government re-use focus
Thursday May 8, 2008
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Users vs the IT people
Tuesday April 22, 2008
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Troux 7.1 Offers Relief to IT Organizations by Identifying Major ...
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RCG IT Explains Enterprise Information Management at DAMA Wilshire ...
Monday March 17, 2008
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Virtualisation: Beyond server consolidation
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ING beefs up tech, e-business ranks
Monday March 10, 2008
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Supporting SOX Compliance Through IT Architecture Planning
Wednesday March 5, 2008
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Enhanced Manageability with OSGi, SCA, BPEL and Spring
Tuesday February 26, 2008
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The CIO's Role in Enabling Innovation
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