Business Architecture: Online Instructor Led (Virtual)

 

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Module 1: What is Business Architecture?

• A day in the life of a business architect
• Definition of a business
• Definition of business architecture

Module 2: Views, Designs and Models

Lesson 1: The fundamental flows in a business
Lesson 2: Vision, business models, and operating models
Lesson 3: Goal Views: Goals, strategies, measures, and timelines
Lesson 4: Process Views: Processes, use cases, and scenarios
Lesson 5: Function Views: Functions and capabilities
Lesson 6: Organization and Financial Views

Workshop: Determine the operating model for Tinkelman
Workshop: Identify processes, capabilities, and plausible org structure for a Tinkelman business. Show the three fundamental flows

Module 3: Finance & Accounting
Why do architects need to know this stuff?
Lesson 1: Basic financial statement analysis
Lesson 2: Business events and financial results
Lesson 3: Project funding models
• Debt vs. equity financing
Lesson 4: Activity based costing
Lesson 5: Measurement of everything else

Workshop: Create two sets of pro-forma financial statements for a Tinkelman project, one showing the effects of the project, the other showing the results if the project is not done. Assuming everything else remains roughly the same, use financial statement analysis to determine whether the project improves Tinkelman’s business conditions.

Module 4: Strategy & Goal Development
Lesson 1: How goals and strategy are related
Lesson 2: A six-step process for developing strategy
• Determine current business model
• Identify potential business models
• Identify competitive necessities (cost, quality, speed, service)
• Identify business focus (customer, product, technology, production capacity)
• Select one business model
• Refine the business model
• Complete the business model
• Identify specific goals

Workshop: Given Tinkelman’s current business, clarify and refine the strategic direction and set strategic goals using the process from this module

Module 5: Process Management and Governance
Lesson 1: Understanding process governance
Lesson 2: Process governance patterns
Lesson 3: Techniques for managing process change
Workshop: Analyze, troubleshoot, and recommend a change to a Tinkelman process

Module 6: Advanced Topics
Lesson 1: Contract as fundamental building block
Lesson 2: Ethical justification for existence (charter to exist granted by state)
Lesson 3: Organizational Patterns
Lesson 4: Troubleshooting