An Introduction to Business Architecture

What does Business Architecture mean to your organization? Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into the enterprise as a whole. This in turn constrains the organization’s collective ability to visualize the root cause of critical issues and rapidly craft viable solutions. To address this lack of enterprise visibility, organizations must be able to visualize their business through formal business architecture.

How do you enable a business architecture 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.

An organization’s business model, goals, organizational structure and other constraints need to be considered when looking at how business architecture can become a value added, business focused discipline within the organization.  This course addresses these questions and considerations by discussing business architecture fundamentals and the array of different ways that today’s organization’s moving ahead with their BA efforts. 

Students are provided a perspective on the various goals, approaches and components of a business architecture. Take-aways include insight into a how organizations have measured the value and maturity of a BA and potential roadmaps for increasing BA maturity.