Business Architecture Training
Effective enterprise architecture relies on business architecture. The course gives students the skills and knowledge to develop business architecture in an enterprise architecture setting.
Business architecture involves describing the structure of the business that will best meet the strategy, goals, and objectives. The course will help the student to understand:
- Corporate strategy
- Motivation and stakeholder expectation
- Value chain and process
- Organizational and geographic design
- Information flow
- Capability Mapping and Capability-based Planning
We provide business architecture training as custom enterprise architecture training. We adapt our business architecture training to directly support your business architects. They may be supporting strategic change, digital transformation, divisional improvement, or other enterprise change.
Business Architecture Training includes
Learn to apply the concepts through practical training
Have confidence you are working on the important parts of the problem
We leverage one of three case studies. Each case study aligns with Enterprise Architecture Use Cases:
- NA Construction - Digital Transformation (Strategy & Portfolio)
- NA Energy - Portfolio Rationalization (Portfolio)
- NA Services - Digital Transformation, Global Acquisition, Private Cloud (Strategy, Portfolio & Project)
Crisp guidance on applying business architecture tools and techniques.
Complete access to Conexiam Navigate Business Architecture tools
Develop Strong Business Architects
Conexiam
does two things.
We develop in-house enterprise architecture teams
We deliver transformative enterprise architecture
We are consistent in everything we do. We use our Self-Help items and Packaged Services in our consulting engagements. We develop our people using the same hands-on mentoring approach we use to develop your EA Team.
Our philosophy, tools, method, and approach are available. Donations to the TOGAF Standard or free practical downloads.
Conexiam’s open toolkit lets prospective clients make informed judgement.
Business Architecture Training Course Outline
This course gives students the skills and knowledge to perform business architecture within the context of an enterprise architecture. Central to business architecture is describing the structure of the business that will best meet the strategy, goals, and objectives.
The core elements of productive business architecture are understanding, documenting, and analyzing. Business Architects will need to understand:
- Corporate strategy
- Motivation and stakeholder requirement
- Capability, value chain and process
- Information flow
- Organizational and geographic design
This course provides the skills and knowledge to develop a blueprint of an organization - to design the changes necessary to provide a common understanding of the enterprise to drive the changes necessary to meet the set of strategic objectives and tactical demands.
Course is aligned around Architecture to Support Portfolio. It focuses on moving a portfolio forward through a set of projects.
In this course, you will learn how to develop Capability-based Plan that is linked to an integrated set of enterprise architecture models. Models that provide an understanding of the organization and the changes necessary to realize the future.
Course Outline
| Topic | Model |
| Reference Architectures Speed development of business architecture and improve quality of output. |
Read a Business Reference Architecture
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| Business Strategy Encapsulates the strategic goals that drive an organization forward and maps them to metrics for ongoing evaluation of how well the enterprise is achieving its goals |
Kaplan Strategy Map
Business Motivation Model
Stakeholder Map or Viewpoint Library
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| Business Capability Describes an organization’s customer-facing functions, supplier-related functions, core business execution functions and business management functions |
Capability Map
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| Business Information Establishes the common information, the sources and flows the organization relies on to perform its operations |
Navigate BIE
A view of information based on real or potential documents. For example, ‘Order Form.’ |
| Business Operations Defines the operational strategic, core, and support structures that go beyond functional and organizational boundaries. Also describes the external entities such as customers, partners and suppliers that interact with the enterprise |
Organigraphics
Logical Process Model
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| Organizational and Geographic Outlines the relationships between roles, capabilities and business units, the breakdown of business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units |
Organization Chart |
Good business architecture must fit within the existing organization’s operations and enterprise architecture. In the real world, we rarely have the freedom to run to build a greenfield architecture. As a starting point, the course provides guidance on the minimum necessary enterprise architecture elements:
- Application Architecture
- Information Systems
- Significant constrains in physical application architecture and SDLC
- Data Architecture
- Significant constrains in physical data architecture and repository
- Technical Architecture
- Logical Technical Architecture
- Significant constrains in physical technical architecture and in place infrastructure
Business Architecture Training
Business architecture is the foundation of all best-practice enterprise architecture. The business architecture simplifies the organization, process and design of your enterprise. You use the simplification to design a change that improves your organization.
Conexiam's business architecture training builds the skills so that you can understand the real-world that allows you to communicate how to most effectively change your enterprise.
Business Architecture Training Scope
Best-practice business architecture treats the business organization, operating model, processes and information as variables - thing that can be changed to improve the organization. However, just like every other enterprise architecture domain, the change depends on what you are developing an architecture for.
All business architecture is subject to architecture governance - the directions and controls of superior architecture.
Hands-on Exercise Centric Training
We designed exercises to build an architecture and show end-to-end traceability. In the classroom delivery, we do all exercises in groups.
To enable participants to build a business architecture foundation to support the achievement of key goals, deliver business value and execute business scenarios, this course will teach you to recognize and evaluate the relationships between different architecture elements.
Business architecture elements include:
- Business strategy: the strategic goals that drive an organization forward and maps them to metrics for ongoing evaluation of how well the enterprise is achieving its goals.
- Business capabilities: Describes an organization’s customer-facing functions, supplier-related functions, core business execution functions and business management functions.
- Business information: Establishes the common information, the sources and flows the organization relies on to perform its operations.
- Business operations: Defines the operational strategic, core, and support structures that go beyond functional and organizational boundaries. Also describes the external entities such as customers, partners & suppliers that interact with the enterprise.
- Business organization & geography: Outlines the relationships between roles, business capabilities and business units, the breakdown of business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.
Our Business Architecture Training shows how to develop a business architecture within the context of superior architecture.
Business Architecture Training Customization
We customize the Business Architecture training course to align to your business architecture focus and the problem you are solving. Common customization includes strategic change, digital transformation, divisional improvement, or other enterprise change.
Business Architecture for Strategic Change
Organizations often embark on a strategic change without understanding how to change. Best-in-class architecture always includes guidance on change. We lean heavily on Hambrick's Strategy diamond to test the strategy. This customization uses the Conexiam Navigate Atlas to support Strategy.
Business Architecture for Digital Transformation
Business architecture suffuses most of the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation. The first question for Digital Transformation is the level, enterprise, divisional, or product line?
One specialized variant is the Business Architect's approach to the IT-Organization.
Business Architecture for Divisional Change
Most business architecture is done to change a division or business unit. This customization uses the Conexiam Navigate atlas to support Portfolio.
Divisional change is often slightly at odds with the over-all enterprise direction. Architecture governance is critical to working on a distinct divisional change.
Contact us to schedule your Business Architecture Training
Business Architecture Training Course
- Custom Scheduled for a minimum of five students
- 3 days of instruction
- Lecture
- Workshop Exercises
- Electronic copy of all Conexiam courseware and exercise materials
- Electronic copy of all Conexiam Navigate templates and public architecture tools used in the course
- Students have access to up-dated courseware, exercise materials, Navigate templates and public architecture contents for over one year
