This slides shows you the importance of business architecture, the link between business strategy and performance. Check out our webinar video: https://www.interfacing.com/bpm-video

1. Understanding Business Architecture
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Bernard Gagnon – Pierre Hadaya
20 Sep 2017

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ENTERPRISE PROCESS CENTER®
• Agile
Development
• System Integration
• Automated
Human Task
Assignment, Alerts
& Escalations
• Business Rules
Enforcement
• Process
Monitoring &
Reporting
Automation &
Monitoring
• Strategic Objectives
& Operational
Alignment
• KPI Targeting &
Monitoring
• Historical reporting
• Process
performance
visibility
Performance
• Automated Approval
Cycles & Audit
History
• Automated Change
Communication &
Sign-off
• Risk & Control
Assessment & Audit
Governance,
Risk & Control
• Value-Stream, Cross-
Functional, System
Touch-Point Analysis
• Critical, Risk &
Selected Path Lean
Analysis Reporting
•Interdependency
Impact Analysis
(input/output, system,
etc.).
Analysis &
Improvement
• Comprehensive
Accountability
Assignment (RASCI-
VS)
• Process & SOP
Alignment Change
Synchronization
• Centralized Reusable
Repository, Change
Management & Auto-
Sequencing
Modeling &
Management

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Bernard Gagnon
M.A.Sc., is Co-Founder and
President of ASATE Group Inc.
Pierre Hadaya
Ph.D., Professor at ESG-UQÀM and
Co-Founder of ASATE Group Inc.

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What is a Strategy
to create a unique mix of values
for its owners, customers,
partners and employees to
differentiate itself in a positive
way from its competitors
The behavioral guidelines an
organization adopts

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The challenges tied to
formulation, implementation and execution of a winning strategy
• Conduct a rigorous analysis of the
external environment and the
strengths and weaknesses of the
organization
• Make the right assumptions
• Consider several strategy alternatives
and choose the best one
• Maintain the operations of the
organization in perfect
alignment with the strategy
• Correctly identify the
transformations required to improve
the organization’s ability to execute
its strategy
• Execute the transformations in an
agile, effective and efficient manner
• Get the expected benefits
• Make the strategy of the
organization the top priority
• Get buy-in and commitment to the
strategy and the transformations
from the members of the
organization
• Remove barriers to the
transformations
• Adapt the strategy and
transformations to internal and
external events

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Most organizations are still facing important difficulties
in their strategic endeavors
of organizations are satisfied with their
strategy formulation process
(McKinsey Quarterly, 2007)
of organizations have difficulties
implementing their strategy
(The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2013)
of strategic initiatives are failures
(Candido et Santos, 2015)
of organizations are unable to execute their
strategy
(Fortune, 1999)
45%
61%
Up to
70%
50-90%

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The main causes of these difficulties
• Agile Development
• Simplified System
Integration
• Automated Human
Task Assignment,
Alerts & Escalations
• Escalation & Business
Rules Enforcement
• Process Visibility,
Monitoring &
Reporting
Automation &
Monitoring
• Strategic Objectives &
Operational Alignment
• KPI Targeting &
Monitoring
Performance
Analysis &
Improvement
• Comprehensive
Accountability Assignment
(RASCI-VS)
• Process & SOP
Alignment Change
Synchronization
• Centralized Reusable
Repository, Change
Management & Auto-
Sequencing
Modeling &
Management
The strategy is selected without a proper
analysis of its feasibility
People are seldom provided with a clear
enough picture of what they need to do to
implement the strategy
The transformation projects executed are
mainly chosen for their short-term
financial benefits rather than their
contribution to the implementation of the
strategy
Priorities proliferate
The transformation projects are executed in
a sub-optimal order
Organizations are poorly equipped to
manage the formulation, implementation
and execution of their strategy
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Best practices are not enough
There is a missing Link
Several best practices
have been proposed
to help alleviate the
difficulties
organizations face in
their strategic
endeavors
Unfortunately,
they are
insufficient to
completely
resolve all of the
difficulties

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The Missing Link
The Business Architecture Approach
An approach designed
to support
organizations in their
transformation efforts
which is based on
proven methods used
in major construction
projects
Target Business Architecture
Overall Plan
Business Architecture team
Engineering Team
Transformation Plan
Master Plan

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What is an Architecture ?
The fundamental organization of a
system embodied in its components
and the relationships that each of
these components have with each
other and with the environment.
Adapted from the ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000 standard

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What is a Target Business Architecture?
It defines how the organization must function in the future to be able to execute its strategy in full
It identifies the business
architecture building blocks
required together with their key
characteristics and how they must
work together
… and how they will need to work with
these building blocks

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The Target Business Architecture
is a Component of the Target Enterprise Architecture
The Target
Enterprise
Architecture also
defines how the
technology assets
must function

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The Transformation Plan
The transformation plan identifies and sequences the transformation
projects that must be executed during the next three to five years in
order to improve the organization’s ability to execute its strategy

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Business Architecture Team
Responsible for
designing the
target business
architecture and
elaborating the
transformation
plan
Contributes to
other strategy
formulation,
implementation
and execution
activities

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Business Architecture and the Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan establishes the
direction of the organization. It
includes the strategy and the long-
term plans necessary for its
implementation and execution
Strategic Plan

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Strategy Management System
• The strategy management system
is the integrated set of processes,
functions, organizational units,
know-how assets, information
assets and information systems
required to ensure sound
management of the strategic
efforts of the organization
• For best performance, it must
leverage business architecture

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Benefits of the Business Architecture Approach
Business architecture enables organizations to strike the balance
between urgency and diligence that is essential to the successful
formulation, implementation and execution of a winning strategy
Effectiveness Efficiency Agility

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ASATE Group Services
Consulting
• Business assessment
• Strategy formulation
• Target business architecture design
• Transformation plan elaboration
• Creation of an internal business architecture practice
• Strategy management system design and
implementation
Courses
• Introduction to the business architecture approach
• Introduction to the ASATE Group Strategy Management System
• ASATE Group Strategic Plan Framework
• ASATE Group Business Architecture Framework
• ASATE Group Transformation Plan Framework
• ASATE Group Strategy Management Framework

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