A brief guide to help you understand the basics of Business Architecture.

1. Business
Architecture 101
A basic guide to understanding Business Architecture practice
by Aniekan Okono

2. What is Business
Architecture?

3. Object
Managment
Group
Source:Bawg.omg.org
“A blueprint of the enterprise that
provides a common understanding
of the organization and is used to
align strategic objectives and tactical
demands.”

4. BLUEPRINT
Source: Oxford Dictionaries
"Something which acts as a
plan, model, or template for
others."

5. BLUEPRINT
Examples
● Business Models
● Operating Models
● Organisation maps
● Value Chain Models
● Capability Models
● Business systems & Information
flow Maps
● VMOST(Strategy)
● Supply Chain Models
● Balanced Score Cards
● Business Process Models

6. Align strategic
objectives and
tactical demands,
how?

7. Strategy AS IS Execution
● Vision
● Mission
● Objectives
● *Controls
● *Performance
Measures
● *Contracts
● Operating Model
● Capability Model
● Target Operating
Model
● Target Capability
Map
● Organisational
Re-design

8. Source:ArchValue

9. VMOST Example

10. People Process
Technology(Tools)

11. People
● Organisation Design
● Culture
● Vision, Mission,
Objectives, Strategy
● Governance Models
● Training
● Capabilities
● Performance
Management(KPI)
● Etc
Process
● Value Chain
● Supply Chain
● Business Processes
● Functions
Technology
● Databases
● Security
● Websites
● Mobile Apps
● Line of Business
Systems
● Integrations
● API
● etc

12. Some of the
blueprints

13. ● Stakeholder Matrix
● Organisation Chart
● Organisation
Unit/Actor/Location
catalog (Organisation
decomposition map)
● Contract/Measure
catalog
● VMOST
● Business Functions
Map
● Business Processes
● Business Events
Flow Map Business
services /information
flow map
● Value Chain Map
● Supply Chain Flow
Map
Solution Concept Diagram
ProcessPeople Technology

14. Enterprise
Architecture

15. Enterprise
In terms of its architecture
Source: Enterprise Architecture Team, USDA-OCIO - The USDA Enterprise
Architecture Program

16. Enterprise
Architecture
Frameworks

17. Source:Dennis E. Wisnosky - Engineering Enterprise Architecture: Call to Action

18. Why TOGAF?

22. Business
Architecture
Benefits

23. Links Execution to Strategy:
● Associate which capabilities support the strategy
pillars.
● Align funding to core capabilities
● Assign, measure and monitor key performance
indicators
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition

24. Competitive differentiation by focusing
on Core Capabilities:
● Invest into core capabilities and leapfrog
competition
● Standardize the context capabilities and outsource
the commodity capabilities
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition

25. 360 Degree view of the Enterprise:
● Coherent and comprehensive view of business
motivation, capabilities, processes, data and
resources
● Ability to understand interconnectedness, overlaps
and synergies
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition

26. A Common Language:
● Provide business and IT an actionable framework
and a common language
● Communicate across the organization that is
devoid of business speak and technical geek
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition

27. Better Business Definition:
● Business architecture help provide a better
business definition which leads to effective and
efficient technology solutions
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition

28. Fosters Reuse of IT assets:
● Build once and use the IT assets many times by
leveraging capabilities and processes
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition

29. Helps breaks down Business Silos and
hence IT silos:
● Focusing on conceptualizing, creating, managing
and evolving capabilities over the long-term will
help defocus annual funding cycles and silo’ed
functionality development
Source: Business Architecture Value Proposition