Business Architecture:
Building Alignment for Rapid Change
by Roger Burlton
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Description
Those organizations that have a good knowledge of their business resources and how they interact with one another can handle the challenge of change better than others. There is no doubt that a solid architecture of all business processes and capabilities is needed to become more innovative and ensure that business resources work together towards a common goal. To do this we need to architect and align our intellectual and physical assets and reuse shared capabilities using Business Processes as the glue in tracing all work and resources to enterprise objectives. A practical, shareable and implementable Business Architecture and Business Change Portfolio will ensure we optimize our transformation initiatives. Using process and related models drawn from the architecture will help to realize the business intent and define the processes and capabilities needed as well as the required change management plans. This highly participative workshop will delve into all aspects of Business Architecture, Business Processes and Business Capabilities from top to bottom.
What you will learn
- To understand what a useful Business Architecture looks like
- To be able to apply enterprise-wide architecture models and techniques that are aligned
- How to sell the Business Architecture value proposition and gain cross-organization acceptance
- To be able to develop a measurable architecture for planning, budgeting, organization design, compliance, human change management, and the introduction of breakthrough technologies
- To be able to use the architecture to accelerate capability change projects and model development
- To Discover how to address cultural barriers during architecture and implementation
Special Features of this Class
- Bet ready for Disruptive Innovation
- Continuously manage architecture as an asset of the enterprise
- Align all programs of business change with IT and HR strategy
- Build an aligned measurement framework based on stakeholders and outcomes not just organization charts
- Get a set of capabilities that are truly traceable to strategic intent
- Be able to sell the concepts upward and reduce resistance to change
- Learn a method that scales for both small and large organizations
- Learn form Roger Burlton; the most experienced practitioner in this field
Main Topics
- Why Business Architecture?
- Business Architecture and Related Disciplines
- The Structure of Business Architecture
- Business Capabilities
- Business Architecture Methodology
- External Environment Assessment
- Value Chain Identification
- External Stakeholder Analysis
- Business Strategy Development
- Semantics: Defining Terms
- Business Process/Capability Architecture
- Business Performance Models
- Alignment to Knowledge, Policies and Rules
- Alignment of Business Architecture with IT Architecture
- Alignment with Human Capabilities
- Portfolio Management
- Leveraging the Architecture in Business Change Initiatives
- Sustaining the Architecture