Business Information Semantics & Rules

Presented by Jim Rhyne, Principal Consultant, Software Renovation Consulting

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May 7-10

Chicago

June 25-28

San Francisco

Sept 17-20

Nov 5-8

New York

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Is your enterprise defining a business transformation led by value chain analysis or a balanced scorecard? Are you having trouble finding data to serve as measures? Are you having a problem communicating the transformation details? These are symptoms of a missing business information architecture. Business information architecture is an aspect of business architecture that defines the terms that business people use to talk about business information, and relates those terms to business strategy, processes, capabilities and organization aspects of the blueprint. Business information architecture also examines the strategic and operational decisions that a business makes and analyzes the information needed to enable the decision.

Business information architecture provides a common vocabulary of business information terms within the business architecture, across multiple lines of business and between business and IT. It allows a direct analysis of the information transformations needed to support a business transformation initiative. In particular, it examines the linkage between strategic and operational decisions and the information that enables them. The linkages between terms in the vocabulary provide support for information impact analysis. The vocabulary can also be linked to other aspects of the business architecture such as business processes, business capabilities, organization, value chains, and so forth. Such linkages support a more thorough analysis of transformation impact. Finally, the vocabulary can be linked to IT information models, allowing the business and IT organizations to jointly plan for change.

This course shows how to model strategy and its linkages to operational transformation of essential business processes. Strategic and transformational decision points are identified and their information requirements are modeled. Because the creation and management of information is expensive, the lifecycle, provenance and governance of information may be modeled to support decisions about how to collect and manage the information.

Course Outline:

Business Information Architecture in Business Architecture
Business Information and Business Decisions, Business view of knowledge
Conceptual Modeling of Business Strategy and Knowledge
Business Rules and Actions
Information Provenance, Lifecycle, Governance
Business Information Architecture and IT Information Modeling

Course Objectives:
Understand the concepts, aspects and uses of business information architecture
Gain an initial understanding of how to create business information architecture and apply it to a business transformation project
Learn best practices for creating and sustaining business information architecture
Understand how to extend the value of business information architecture by linking it to other business and IT architectures
Learn to “sell” a project to create initial business information architecture to your enterprise

Instructor Biography:
Jim Rhyne has consulted with businesses and led technology developers in transformational projects for many years while employed by IBM. Since 1999, he has specialized in business-led transformation of core systems in financial services enterprises. He led the effort in IBM to apply Service Oriented Architectures to legacy middleware and applications. Jim is now working as an independent consultant, continuing to help business and IT organizations understand and plan for transformation. You can find out more about Jim at this website: http://www.enterprisesoftwarerenovation.com.

Prerequisites:

Business Architecture 101;
Familiarity with modeling and modeling tools

Target Audience/Who Should Attend:

Business Architects and Analysts
IT Architects and Analysts interested in Business Architecture
Managers / Executives
Consultants

Unique Value of Course:

Business Architecture is the application of model driven analysis to the definition and execution of business strategy and transformation. Business Information Architecture is one of the primary facets of Business Architecture; its roles are to provide the vocabulary for Business Architecture and to link information to business decisions.

“Without a comprehensive description of strategy, executives cannot easily communicate strategy among themselves or to their employees.” (Kaplan and Norton, Strategy Maps, 2004)

Attendees will learn how to apply architecture techniques to business strategy and analysis approaches such as Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecard
Attendees will learn a basic conceptual modeling language and investigate the practice and tools of conceptual modeling
Attendees will investigate several business architecture case studies to discover how to apply conceptual modeling and how to extract business value from the models

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