Course Overview

Aimed at business analysts, project and business managers, and business change specialists, the Business Architecture course enables delegates to gain a greater understanding of the key concepts and techniques involved in the subject.

The course focuses on the business rather than the technology side of the subject and covers a range of techniques and frameworks as well the relationship with other architectures and disciplines. Other topics you’ll explore include value chain analysis, understanding business culture and information management.
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This is a Business Architecture course by Uplatz. 

Context for Business Architecture

• What is Business Architecture?
• Drivers for developing a Business Architecture
• Why Business Architecture is key to effective business change
• Relationship between Business Architecture and other architectures
• The business change life cycle
• The role of the business architect
• Other roles involved in Business Architecture work

Business Architecture frameworks

• The components of a Business Architecture
• Zachman’s architecture framework
• The Business Architecture Guild framework
• The AssistKD POPIT™ model

Motivation view of Business Architecture

• Business motivation analysis
• OMG business motivation model
• Values, ethos, strategy, goals - CSFs and KPIs
• Balanced business scorecard
• McKinsey’s 7-S model

Organisational/capability view of Business Architecture

• Business Models
• Business capabilities and business capability modelling
• Value systems

Process/value view of Business Architecture

• Value chain analysis and value propositions
• Value stream analysis
• Value network analysis
• Business services
• Business processes, business events and business rules

People/competecy view of Business Architecture

• Roles, responsibilities and relationships
• Competency frameworks
• Management activities and standards
• Analysing people and performance
• Business culture

Information view of Business Architecture

• The importance of the information view
• Business information modelling
• Business intelligence
• Information and security

Technology view of Business Architecture

• Relationship between business architecture and other architectures
• Technology to support the implementation of business architecture

The use of business architecture in the management of change

• Analysing the impact of change
• Change control and configuration management
• Communications planning