Business architecture is a blueprint of an enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization's structure and aligns strategic objectives with tactical demands. It articulates an enterprise's capabilities, governance structure, business processes, and information as part of enterprise architecture. The goals of business architecture include improving business effectiveness and efficiency, enhancing business-IT alignment, and increasing the effectiveness of IT, EA, and business units. Business architecture represents an organization through various views such as business motivation, organizational structure, capabilities, and processes. It is business-focused rather than IT-focused, flexible, developed iteratively, and reusable.

1. Business Architecture
Overview:
What is Business Architecture?
by Chris Moloney 15 July 2013
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Chris Moloney
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What is Business Architecture?
"A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the
organisation and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands.“
Business Architecture articulates the structure of an enterprise in terms of its
capabilities, governance structure, business processes, and business
information.
Business IT
Strategy Execution
Business Architecture

3. Part of Enterprise Architecture
An essential
component of
the overall
Enterprise
Architecture.
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Business Architecture Key Benefits
Alignment Visibility Strategy Execution

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Goals of Business Architecture
Focus Goal Primary stakeholders
Business effectiveness
Improve existing business capabilities and
recommend new capabilities to better serve
customers and/or enhance business operations.
COO
Line of Business Executives
Business efficiency
Improve process efficiency and minimise
functional overlaps to reduce operational costs
and complexity.
COO
Business Managers
Business-IT alignment
Improve goal, strategy, investment, and resource
alignment between IT and business units.
COO
Business Managers
IT effectiveness
Improve IT’s core capabilities to better serve
business needs .
CIO
Heads of IT
IT efficiency
Improve IT’s cost performance through process
improvement and standards.
IT Managers
EA effectiveness
Improve EA performance through better
understanding of business capabilities, goals and
strategies.
Enterprise Architects

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Business Architecture Views
Business
Motivation
Organisational
Structure
Business
Capability
Business
Process
Why? Who?
What? How?

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Business Architecture Views
Business
Motivation
Why?

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Business Architecture Views
Who?
Organisational
Structure
CEO
CFO COO CIO
Exec Assistant

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Business Architecture Views
What?
Business
Capability

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Business Architecture Views
How?
Business
Process

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Nature of Business Architecture
Business focused: Not IT
focused
Flexible and adaptable to
suit the business
Iterative: developed in
layers
Reusable: not “one off”

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The end. Questions?