Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (One-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital Business Models navigating a competitive digital landscape,
- Becoming a data-ready digital enterprise,
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making through a data-centric approach,
- Translating enterprise vision into refined business processes,
- Aligning IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Enhancing Agility: Leveraging Capabilities from Business to IT Systems
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change through Goal and Data Driven Structures from business to IT,
- Establishing the backbone of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions based on shifting strategic priorities,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Implications for IT System Components
- Utilising Goal and Data-Driven Structures in the System backbone to support changes,
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided using the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps for an efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Maintaining traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to facilitate better governance amidst change.
Note: These interactive training and mentoring sessions are conducted using case studies to demonstrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples. For on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions tailored to your specific business case.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments based on the evolution of standards and commercial strategies.
The Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defence, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures from the Open Group.
The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML, as referenced on this website, are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
