Business Architecture, Business Transformation

1. Business
Architecture

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Introduction to business architecture
Purpose and impact
Impact
Purpose
Implementing a transformation without an architecture is like building a skyscraper without a blueprint. To be successful, organizations need a holistic view describing
what the finished product will look like and how it fits with its surroundings. Business Architecture provides this view by tying the organization’s strategies, goals, and
objectives to the supporting solutions and showing how they all fit with each other.
• A structured and consistent view of the company’s strategy, products, customers, constraints
and environment
• A defined operating model that provides the structure required to achieve the company’s strategic
goals
• Transparency into inefficiencies and redundancies across business units, geographies or
products
• Visibility into opportunities for process improvement, e.g., migration from overly manual or
inefficient processes
• Traceability from the strategic needs of the enterprise to all of the components, such as
technology, that support those needs

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Introduction to business architecture
What is architecture?
Architecture is a structured planning and delivery discipline that relates business models to the underlying people, processes and technologies that enable them. There are five architecture domains
that can be modeled at different levels of granularity – Business, Application, Data, Technology and Security Architectures.
Security Architecture
Business Architecture
Application Architecture Data Architecture
Technology Architecture
Organization
Capability Operating
Model
Application Component
Data Entity
Technology
Platform
Strategy
Architecture Domains Relationships
Business Architecture
Describes what the business does and how it does it in order to achieve the business vision and strategy through a
set of related models such as strategy, organization and capability
Data Architecture
Provides the structure of an organization’s logical
and physical data assets, data management
resources and data integration
Application Architecture
Provides a blueprint for the systems, their interactions and
relationships to the core business processes of the
organization
Technology Architecture
Describes the logical software and hardware capabilities that are required to support the deployment of business,
data, and application services (e.g. IT infrastructure, middleware, networks, communications, processing and
standards)
Architecture Domains
Security Architecture
Unified security design that addresses the needs and potential risks involved in an enterprise and details scenarios
and contexts to apply security control
Policy Enforcement
Content Security
Disaster Recovery

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Introduction to business architecture
Guiding principles
Think big but stay focused on the broad representation of the enterprise and include the most critical, strategic capabilities
relevant to the organization
Focus on the broad picture
The real value will come from stakeholders identifying how strategic capabilities will be transformed and what new
capabilities are required to meet the strategic goals
Speak the voice of the
customer
Maintain flexibility as the capability model will continue to evolve
Maintain flexibility
Use a common, simple language that can be understood by both business and IT
Keep it simple

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Example business architecture views
Operating model
Operating Model links the business strategy and the detailed organization design to deliver on the strategy
Example
Key Ideas
Key Benefits
• Operating Model addresses the following:
• How integrated business processes should be across
business units
• What kind of information business units should share
• What information is central and common to all
business units
• What level of autonomy business units should have
in defining how the company does business
• Helps to determine how the business is structured and what level of process integration and standardization is needed

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