Over the years people have asked me to publish stuff on BA. So here we go. The BA matrix to check the maturity of your organisation. Enjoy.

1. Quadrant 5
Full Business
Architectural
realisation
Higher
Motivation Organisation Function Motivation Organisation Function
Driver Driver Organisation Business Services
· Community culture · Business Services
(Motivation) Organisation Business Services (Motivation) · Sense of belonging transparency in the
· Strong desire to · ·
Quadrant 4
· Duplicated capability on Community central community.
Quadrant 1
regionalise. Operate as a Complex structure as
legal entity integrated platforms agenda · Leveraged enabling
broader community. · Operates as a single
· Standardised KPI and services
· Reduce cost through use community Location
common BMS.
of common way of doing · Rationalised via shared
things and standarise Location services. Processes, Events,
· Decentralised Processes, Events, · Smaller local precense Controls
Controls · Rationalised asset base
Measures Measures · High level of asset
· High level of standardised · 3D type analysis
(Motivation) Stakeholder/Role functions and data. (Motivation) utilisation · Value chain transparency
· Performance measure has · Strong sense of local · Key processes expedited
local focus. ownership. and managed within the
Stakeholder/Role
Level of Business Capability
· No desire to compare · Allegiance to local community.
· Community central
against industry community Function · Scorecard has community Function
agenda
· Scorecard likely to be · Lacks wider corporate focus.
culture support · Decentralised · Desire to carry out leading · Decentralised
implemented but will have
· Local Agenda · Exist in all communities edge analysis and · Exist in all communities
local community focus.
comparisons.
Technical Architecture Technical Architecture
Platform Services Platform Services
· Robust infrastructure · Latest ERP solutions · Enterprise application integration · Single instance
· Latest ERP · Enterprise Application Integration
· Flexible applications · Integrated platforms · Robust infrastructure · Regional data centre
· Integrated platforms · Web Architecture
· Portals and EDI stuff · Web architecture · Flexible applications · EDI and portal exchanges
Motivation Organisation Function Motivation Organisation Function
Driver Organisation Business Services Driver Organisation Business Services
· Some centralisation of · Some use of shared
(Motivation) · Complex structure as · Low level of (Motivation) competencies. services
legal entity standardisation.
· ·
Quadrant 2
Community culture Poor “close to report”
Quadrant 3
· Organic growth through
· Operates as a community performance.
acquisition
but with mixed · Standarisation.
· Focus on local community Location Location
implementation results
no awareness of region · Decentralised but sharing
· Decentralised Processes, Events, Processes, Events,
resources.
· Under leveraged asset
Controls · Some rationalisation of Controls
base
assets.
Measures · Basic Management Measures · Inefficient data collection
reporting and analysis.
(Motivation) Stakeholder/Role · No common reporting (Motivation) Stakeholder/Role · Standardisation, but
· Strong sense of local · Duplicated processes
· Community focus with · High degree of community duplicated execution.
ownership.
· Local focus strong role input. ownership.
· Allegiance to local Assists with checking the
· No scorecards · Scorecard has strong · Sense of belonging.
community Function Function
· No desire to compare · Lacks wider corporate community elements. · Local agendas balanced maturity of the
against peers. culture support · Decentralised · Desire to compare with against community · Decentralised organisation.
· Local Agenda · Exist in all communities peers in the community. objectives. · Exist in all communities
Technical Architecture Technical Architecture
Platform Services Platform Services
· Weak legacy systems · Diverse data standards · Incompatible applications · Legacy systems · Diverse data standards · Some degree of application
· No/Poor/inefficient · Fragmented infrastructure · Inflexible/bespoke applications · Some interfaces · Fragmented infrastructure integration. © 2009 Henk Harms
interfaces · Poor functionality · Aging technology · Aging technology · Poor functionality · Inflexible/bespoke applications. (henk@bawizard.com)
Lower
Least
Most
Integrated
Business Architecture/Organisation Integrated