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Intervista – Canada

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Business Architecture outline course

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Day 1 – Strategy, Innovation and Business Architecture

1. The innovation imperative.
Challenges of business agility.

• Agility and innovation – what do they really mean?
  - Client and citizen-centric pressures
  - Regulatory and compliance requirements
  - What is your innovation culture?
  - Opportunities for new business models
• The role of strategy for Business Architecture (BA)
• Enabling services, products and program innovation with BA
• BA as catalyst for change: Trailing strategy, values & technology trends
• The constraints to agility - Managing accidental and essential complexity

2. The Business Architecture manifesto.
Aligning strategy, design and projects.

• Defining Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
• Business Architecture mission, deliverables, and target groups
• The Business Architecture ecosphere:
  - Enterprise, information, cloud services, technology, security and policy architectures
• BA’s critical contributions to EA
• EA and BA: Closing the strategy, design & implementation divide

3. Real World Business Architecture.
Drives and imperatives for business architecture.

• Transformation and innovation management
• Organizational design
• Portfolio management and rationalization
• Performance management and cost reduction
• Mergers, reorganizations and large-scale integration

4. Identifying a Strategic Roadmap.
Getting started: Analysis of business.

• Needs, goals, outcomes, outputs, and values
• Enterprise-level business architecture analysis: Identifying strategic drivers
• Value proposition and value chain analysis
• Service concept and service value chain
• Logic models and strategy maps
• Validating business goals

5. From strategy to Business Architecture.
Bridging the gap.
In this interactive workshop, team members use a real world case study to understand the strategy of
introducing a direct self-service channel.

• Using Business Architecture for transformation
• Analyzing strategic direction and stakeholder needs
• Value chain and program analysis
• Impact of strategic changes on people, process and technology

Days 2 & 3 Implementing Business Architecture for the Client-Centric Enterprise

1. Fundamentals of enterprise models.
Managing change.

• How architectures, frameworks and models tame complexity
• Mapping the future:
  - As-is vs. To-be Business Architectures
• Overview of BA approaches
• The Business Architect as chameleon:
  - Representing strategic, organizational and IT perspectives
  

2. Business services design.
Modeling for a client-centric world.

• Alignment of strategy and outcomes
• Meeting market or constituency needs
• Using service patterns
• Modeling valued outputs of the enterprise
• Aligning the outputs with intended outcomes

3. Understanding the value chain.
Designing target operating models.

• The extended enterprise
• Modeling value chains and core processes
• Assessing & modeling the impact of strategy on the current value chain
• Abstracting common/shared services from the current operating models
• Organizational implications for realizing target operating models:
  - Designing vertical and horizontal accountabilities
  - Managing outsourcing
  - Building in trust: Security and privacy

4. Getting the semantics right.
Creating a shared understanding.

• The conceptual business model and its role
• Modeling for the bilingual Business Architect
  - Business and technical language competencies
• Understanding the structural view
• Business components and their relationships
• Input to the enterprise information model

5. Lifecycle analysis.
The times they are a changing.

• Understanding the behavioral view
• The state transition model:
  - Modeling behavior over time
• Combining semantic and state transition models

6. Modeling business processes.
Living in a world of distributed and virtual services.

• The critical role of Business Architecture in distributed services
• Understanding the functional view
• Businessand distributed use cases
• Implications for cloud applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Process and integration standards

7. Capturing policy and business rules.
Gaining enterprise agility.

• Environmental implications on strategy
• Impact of strategy changes on business & policy
• Externalizing policies and business rules
• Transparency of business processes
• Modeling business rules
• Business scenarios

8. From over-the-counter to 24/7.
A world of disintermediation.

• The challenge of conducting business anytime, anywhere with anyone
• Business network model:
  - Implications for the technology architecture
• Workflow architecture
  - Design/simulation of enterprise-wide workflows and business processes

9. Patterns in the business environment.
The power of reference models.

• The role of reference models
• From abstraction to generalization
• Government reference models
• Industry sector reference models
• Real world look at municipal reference models

10. Managing the transformation portfolio.
The reality of priorities.

• Roadmap to BA deliverables
• Coverage and granularity factors:
  - Business analysis, project and portfolio management
• Building the right skill set: From BA to IT to change management
• The build-out: From projects to strategic portfolio management

11. Building the business blueprint.
Achieving the adaptive enterprise.

• Business modeling tools: Managing business design knowledge
• The reality of strategy dynamics:
  - Ongoing adaptation in a client-centric world
  - Sensitivity of Business Architecture artifacts and models to change
• Managing the portfolio of business artifacts
• Business Architecture governance

 

Enterprise Architecture Course

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2 Day Course - Understanding Enterprise Architecture
Framework Fundamentals

1. The innovation imperative.
Business drivers for Enterprise Architecture.

• The waves of change
• The revolution in concepts

2. From the source.
Framework for Enterprise Architecture.

• Enterprise knowledge artifacts:
  - From data, function and networks
  - From scope to enterprise, systems and technology models
• The extended framework:
  - From people, time and motivation
  - From workflow, process and business rule models
• Rules of the Framework

3. Addressing the paradoxical challenge.
Rapid delivery & enterprise infrastructure.

• The "model" vs the "results" view of the world
• Process concepts
• What about objects?
• Paradigms for managing change: architecture and assemble-to-order to manage
  rapid delivery

4. Behind the scenes.
EA implementation essentials.

• Model selection
• Skills, approaches and tools
• Short term demand strategies
• Managing federated architectures

5. For good measure.
The role of EA standards in successful implementation.

• Framework standards
• Adapting the standards to your organization
• Elaborating the models to your business

6. Planning the work.
Enterprise Architecture methodologies.

• Classification vs methodologies
• Methodology standards
• Methodology vendors
• Framework implementers
  - Methodologies overview

7. Working the plan.
Enterprise Architecture practicalities.

• Funding and cost justification
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Repositories and model management
• Organization & culture change
• Towards the new business imperative: Build, Store, Manage and Change the Models

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