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Seminar and Workshop Outline
Why Business Architecture?
- Fast Response to Constant Change and Disruption
- Anticipation and Innovation
- Enterprise Technology Implementation
- Requirement for Adaptability
- Alignment of Business Resources
- Reuse of Assets
Business Architecture and Related Disciplines
- Business Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture (EA)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Business Analysis (BA)
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
The Structure of Business Architecture
- Business Architecture Meta Model
- Business Architecture Artifacts and Models
- Business Architecture Frameworks
- Zachman
- TOGAF
- BACOE
- BPTrends Associates
Business Capabilities
- What is a Capability?
- Business Processes and Capability
- The Burlton Hexagon
- The Process-Capability Architecture
Business Architecture Methodology
- Methodology Overview
- External Environment Assessment
- STEEPL view of External Pressures
- Business Scenario Models
- SWOT
Workshop: What are the External Pressures on your business?
Value Chain Identification
- How to define your Value Chains
- How many do you have?
- Shared Services across Value Chains
- What is the Value Chain’s Value Proposition?
Workshop: What Value Chains do you have and what is your Value Proposition?
External Stakeholder Analysis
- Stakeholder Classification
- Product and Service Exchanges
- Stakeholder Needs and Expectations and Business Outcomes
- Measuring Stakeholder Relationships: Goals, KPIs and Objectives
- Critical Success Factors for Stakeholder Value
Workshop: Who are your stakeholders and what Outcomes must we deliver for them?
Business Strategy Development
- Business Motivation Model: Ends and Means, Mission, Vision, Goals and Objectives
- Strategy Maps
- Business Model Canvas
- Business Programs
- Your Product and Service Catalog
- Your North Star
Workshop: What are the Strategies for the Value Chain?
Semantics: Defining Terms
- Business Vocabulary
- The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR)
- Data Dictionary
- Glossary of Terms
Business Process / Capability Architecture
- Stakeholder Process Lifecycles
- Product and Service Process Lifecycles
- Business Resources Process Lifecycles
- Consolidating Overlaps across Lifecycles
- Using Business Process Frameworks
- Finalizing and Gaining Acceptance of the Business Process / Capability Architecture
- Examples of Architectures from Various Industries
- The Role of Process Improvement (Six Sigma and Lean)
- Process Modeling standards (IGOE, BPMN, CMMN)
Workshop: What are the Lifecycle Processes for your Value Chain and what are the Processes / Capabilities of your business?
Business Performance Models
- Characteristics of Good Performance Indicators
- Lagging and Leading Indicators
- Balanced Scorecards
- Process Scorecards
- Scorecard Alignment and Traceability
Workshop: What is your Performance Scorecard map?
- Alignment to Organization Structure and Accountability
- Organization Structure
- Associating Processes, Measures, Organization and Accountabilities
Workshop: How does your Scorecard map to your Organization?
Alignment to Knowledge, Policies and Rules
- Knowledge Management
- Policies and Business Rules
- Decision Management and the Decision Model Notation standard (DMN)
Workshop: How do your Business Rules relate to your Process / Capability Architecture?
Alignment of Business Architecture with IT Architecture
- Information Model
- SOA
- BPMS
- Business Activity Monitoring
- ERP
Workshop: How do your IT Capabilities support your Processes?
Alignment with Human Capabilities
- Work Guidelines
- Skills and Competencies
- Capacities
- Motivation
- Cultural Alignment
- Structural Maturity (CMMI)
- Cultural Maturity
- Aligned Maturity
- Growing your Maturity
Workshop: What is your Maturity Level
Portfolio Management
- Using the North Star (operational goals and objectives) to Evaluate Potential Value Creation
- Using Performance Data to Evaluate Performance Gaps
- Pain- Gain Analysis for Prioritization
- Creation of Priorities: Grids and Heat Maps
- Feasibility Analysis
- Defining the Portfolio of Change
Workshop: What are your Change Priorities?
Leveraging the Architecture in Business Change Initiatives
- Scoping the Change Project
- Decomposing and Using the Models
- Updating the Models
Workshop: Scoping one Project
Sustaining the Architecture
- Governance Framework Considerations
- Architecture CoE Support
Summary
- Business Architecture Roles
- Business Architecture Tools
- Maturity Assessment (hard stuff and soft stuff)
- A Maturity Based Rollout Strategy
- Critical Factors Revisited