Course Description:
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.
Course Outline:
Why do we create Business Architectures
Asking questions of a Business Architecture
What, Where, When, Why and How of Business Architecture
The Models of Business Architecture: Motivations, Analytics & Specifications
The Role of Standards, Notations, Metamodels and Tools
Business Architecture Archetypes
Leveraging Business Architecture to drive Tactics, Strategies & Decision Making
Transformation opportunities with Business Architecture
Organizational and Skillset considerations
Connecting Business Architecture with IT Automation
Roadmaps to maturing Business Architecture capabilities and value
Course Objectives:
Identify and define the important components that make up a Business Architecture
Consider the different approaches organizations have for their Business Architecture initiatives.
Understand how to tailor a Business Architecture for multiple purposes.
Identify the appropriate use of Notations, Tools and Metamodels.
Assess the maturity of Business Architecture within in an organization.
Consider the critical success factors and a roadmap for an organization’s Business Architecture effort.
Understand the organizational structures and associated roles for business architecture initiatives.
Understand the pitfalls and mismatches that can be associated with progressing a business architecture.