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Business Architecture Overview: What is Business Architecture? by Chris Moloney 15 July 2013 http://au.linkedin.com/in/chrismoloney/
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What is Business Architecture? What are the key benefits, goals and views of business architecture?
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Business ArchitectureOverview:
What is Business Architecture?
by Chris Moloney 15 July 2013http://au.linkedin.com/in/chrismoloney/
Chris Moloneyhttp://au.linkedin.com/in/chrismoloney/
Chris Moloneyhttp://au.linkedin.com/in/chrismoloney/
What is Business Architecture?"A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organisation and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands.“
Business Architecture articulates the structure of an enterprise in terms of its capabilities, governance structure, business processes, and business
information.
Business IT
Strategy Execution
Business Architecture
Part of Enterprise Architecture
An essential component of
the overall Enterprise
Architecture.
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Business Architecture Key BenefitsAlignment Visibility Strategy Execution
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Goals of Business ArchitectureFocus Goal Primary stakeholders
Business effectiveness
Improve existing business capabilities and
recommend new capabilities to better serve
customers and/or enhance business operations.
COO
Line of Business Executives
Business efficiency
Improve process efficiency and minimise
functional overlaps to reduce operational costs
and complexity.
COO
Business Managers
Business-IT alignment
Improve goal, strategy, investment, and resource
alignment between IT and business units.
COO
Business Managers
IT effectiveness
Improve IT’s core capabilities to better serve
business needs .
CIO
Heads of IT
IT efficiency
Improve IT’s cost performance through process
improvement and standards.
IT Managers
EA effectiveness
Improve EA performance through better
understanding of business capabilities, goals and
strategies.
Enterprise Architects
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Business Architecture Views
Business Motivation
Organisational Structure
Business Capability
Business Process
Why? Who?
What? How?
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Business Architecture Views
Business Motivation
Why?
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Business Architecture Views
Who?
Organisational Structure
CEO
CFO COO CIO
Exec Assistant
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Business Architecture Views
What?
Business Capability
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Business Architecture Views
How?
Business Process
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Nature of Business Architecture
Business focused: Not IT focused
Flexible and adaptable to suit the business
Iterative: developed in layers
Reusable: not “one off”
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The end. Questions?
