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Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)

Introduction

  • Understanding digital disruption, along with digital value creation and delivery,
  • Navigating Digital Business Models within a competitive digital landscape,
  • Transforming into a Digital Data-Ready Enterprise,
  • Leveraging the Goal and Data-Driven structures of the Business Motivation Model,
  • Exploring System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
  • Reviewing IT Reference Architectures,
  • Ensuring Convergence and Alignment between these Frameworks and Architectures,
  • Enhancing decision-making through data-based insights,
  • Refining the Enterprise Vision down to specific Business Processes,
  • Steps to align IT infrastructure with evolving business needs.

Building Agility: From Business Strategy to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities

  • Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change: Applying Goal and Data-Driven Structures from the Business to IT Systems,
  • Structuring the Business Architecture backbone around capabilities and value delivery functions,
  • Structuring capability evolutions based on shifting strategies,
  • Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies).

Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)

  • Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects to reflect strategic changes,
  • Integrating these modifications into the business process cartography components.

Impacts on IT System Components

  • Utilizing Goal and Data-Driven Structures in the System backbone to support change,
  • Identifying Services and underlying System functions that require modification due to changes,
  • Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided from the same case study).

Conclusion

  • Steps in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
  • Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance in the face of change.

Note: These training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to demonstrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.

Concepts are initially explained using case study examples; for on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case during the session.

Content may be subject to minor changes depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.

Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are respectively trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International.

DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are respectively Architecture Frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO.

IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures from the Open Group.

The Business and Value Model Canvases are trademarks by Osterwalder and Pigneur.

BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).

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