Course Outline
Enhancing Business and IT Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, along with the creation and delivery of digital value.
- Navigating digital business models within a highly competitive digital landscape.
- Transitioning into a Digital Data-Ready Enterprise.
- Exploring the "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model.
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.
- Analysis of IT Reference Architectures.
- Strategies for ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures.
- Enhancing decision-making processes based on data insights.
- Refining the enterprise vision to define specific business processes.
- Key steps to align IT infrastructure with the evolving needs of the business.
Achieving Agility: Leveraging Capabilities from Business to IT Systems
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: applying goal and data-driven structures from the business side to IT systems.
- Defining the core of business architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions.
- Structuring capability evolution in response to shifting strategies.
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via the presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects in coherence with strategic shifts.
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Utilizing goal and data-driven structures to support the system backbone against change.
- Identifying the services and underlying system functions affected by changes.
- Integrating these evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of an efficient agile methodology for business and system architecture development.
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance in the face of change.
Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to illustrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained using case study examples; for on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case.
Content may be subject to minor changes depending on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
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 Defense, 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, 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.
