Benefits Flashcards
A strategic mapping framework supports
Organizational alignment
A strategic mapping framework improves
Communication and fidelity of objectives
A strategic mapping framework assists organizations in
Adapting rapidly
A strategic mapping framework enables the
Rationalization of initiatives
Strategy mapping frameworks support
Capability-centric investment
A strategic mapping framework provides the ability to monitor
An organization’s progress towards strategic objectives
Capabilities provide businesses with
A common vocabulary
Capabilities provide a way to see what is
Common across a business
Capabilities enable
Laser-like business investment focus
Capabilities serve as a baseline for __, __, and __
strategic planning, change management, and impact analysis
Capabilities are the basis for __, and __
Transformational design and deployment
Organization mapping provides organizational context for __, __, and __
issue analysis, planning, and solution deployment
Organization mapping improves
Strategic planning and investment analysis
Organization mapping exposes opportunities for improved __ and __
Collaboration and communication
Organization mapping fills in
The “white space” in the hierarchy chart
Value maps provide a common baseline for envisioning
How to deliver high visibility stakeholder value
Value maps provide clear focal points for
Prioritizing how to achieve stakeholder value
Value maps enable delivery of
Near-term, mid-term, and long-term value to stakeholders
Value maps provide new and unique ways to
Envision stakeholder engagement
Value maps enable prioritization and managed
Deployment of business capabilities
Ability to deliver customer value more effectively is a
Benefit of information mapping
Improved strategic planning and financial management is a
Benefit of information mapping
Communication and collaboration across business units is a
Benefit of information mapping
Communication and collaboration across business partners is a
Benefit of information mapping
Streamlined merger and acquisition deployments is a
Benefit of information mapping
Improved integrity of financial and other executive reporting is a
Benefit of information mapping
Increased accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of regulatory compliance is a
Benefit of information mapping
Initiative maps allow organizations to gain a comprehensive view of
How their investments support strategic investment priorities
Initiative maps provide visibility into
The alignment of an organization’s efforts to pursue its objectives
Initiative maps enable portfolio decisions by
Capturing the complex relationships among initiatives
Initiative maps support the creation of
Roadmaps to provide horizon-based planning
Initiative maps enable
Dynamic reevaluation of in-flight initiatives
Product mapping offers visibility into the
Overall product ecosystem
Product mapping enables executives to target specific products or product lines in response to a
Given set of business strategies
Product mapping enables executives to target __ or __ in response to a given set of business strategies
Specific products or product lines
Product mapping provides a focal point to make __ and __ in conjunction with a given business strategy
Product investment decisions and funding allocation
Product mapping provides a focal point to make product investment decisions and funding allocation in conjunction with
A given business strategy
Product mapping offers a point of focus for
Determining how to improve product performance
Product mapping provides a basis for
Streamlining product design, creation, and packaging
Product mapping provides an additional viewpoint for
Aligning value-specific context to certain views of the business architecture
Product mapping offers visibility into
How initiatives positively affect related products or product lines
Product mapping offers visibility into
How initiatives negatively affect related products or product lines
Stakeholder mapping provides a context for determining
How to achieve and deliver customer value
Stakeholder mapping identifies __, __, __, and __ within the context of stakeholder value delivery
Third-party partners, suppliers, agents, and related stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping offers a perspective on how to prioritize various value streams based on
The stakeholders benefiting from those value streams
Stakeholder mapping establishes a context for
Externalized resource enablement for certain capabilities
Stakeholder mapping provides a basis for identifying the
Role of stakeholders that participate in various value stream stages
Stakeholder mapping highlights specific areas of focus of various internal stakeholders and
How they deliver externally and internally focused value to the business
Stakeholder mapping offers business executives a concrete set of
Stakeholder focal points as input to strategic planning work
Centralizing policy definition and tracking within a formal framework increases
The level of maturity of policy management, policy dissemination, policy enforcement, and policy compliance
Formalizing the relationship between policy and goals and objectives helps structure strategy in a way that
Aligns to internal and external principles, rules, and regulations
Formally mapping policy to business units, products, stakeholders, capabilities, and other business perspectives enables management to
Demonstrate policy conformance to management, auditors, and regulators
Formally mapping policy to __, __, __, __, and other business perspectives enables management to demonstrate policy conformance to management, auditors, and regulators
Business units, products, stakeholders, capabilities,
Linking priority policies to value streams and capabilities
Highlights focal points for business investments.
Linking priority policies to __ and __ highlights focal points for business investments.
Value streams and capabilities
Formalizing the link between policy and initiatives helps
Prioritize initiatives and highlight interdependencies
Linking policy into an overall business ecosystem and formal business architecture framework facilitates
Creation of holistic metrics and KPIs for executives
Business vision and related objectives can be interpreted and addressed effectively through
The formal mapping between business architecture and IT architecture.
Business-driven planning can be aligned more effectively to IT strategy through
Business/IT architecture alignment approaches.
Business/IT alignment enables more effective
planning and funding of IT projects.
Business architecture provides a framework for ___ that expedite delivery of business value.
Expedited, streamlined business design approaches
Business architecture provides a framework for expedited, streamlined business design approaches that
Expedite delivery of business value.
Exposing current state IT architecture that impact business weaknesses, gaps, and risks provides a framework
For more effective, highly focused requirements analysis.
Synchronised business/IT alignment enables business driven roadmaps that allow
The business to drive business/IT transformation efforts.
Business/IT alignment provides a framework for effective
Application and data architecture management.
Brings a robust, business centric focus to the discipline of enterprise architecture
Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit
Integrates all aspects of strategic analysis and planning through solution deployment
Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit
Provides a complete business and IT perspective to issue analysis and cost/benefit analysis
Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit
Aligns multiple disciplines across the business and technology teams to maximize investments while optimizing value
Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit
Establishes clear traceability from strategic objectives, business impacts, project definition, and requirement analysis
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Enables the business to frame various projects within the context of a comprehensive, business transformation strategy
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Offers a well-articulated frame of reference to define project scoping and phasing from a business perspective
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Provides the business with the context for establishing project return on investment analysis
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Helps shape project scope by providing a comprehensive, consistent, and robust understanding of various aspects of the business tied to a given business objective
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Provides clear insights into current state IT architecture impacts
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Clarifies insights into data architecture and service-oriented architecture articulation and governance
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Provides a framework for requirements analysis, derivation, and reuse
Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture
Allows executives to make better investments in application portfolios
Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management
Places application value in a more strategic perspective
Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management
Helps determine which applications should stay, be improved, or be retired
Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management
Identifies risks, weaknesses, and gaps in the application portfolio from a business perspective.
Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management
Business architecture provides a context for transforming business objectives into deployable solutions through
SOA streamlining vision to solution paths.
Business-driven SOA delivers IT solutions that align more effectively to the business, which in turn create
A more responsive IT environment.
IT gains a clearer perspective on how to deliver specific business solutions across __ through __.
business units, business architecture. (SOA)
Value stream / capability mapping to current state architecture provides a perspective as to how to incorporate services into
Legacy IT environments and transform those environments to SOA, and
Value stream / capability mapping to current state architecture provides a perspective as to how to
Enhance IT to support new business requirements and initiatives.
Aligning data management practices with business architecture can identify
Quality and security issues to be addressed by data managers.
The alignment process results in a better understanding of the
Domain of data management by the business architects
The alignment process results in a better understanding of the
Objectives, structure, and function of the business by data managers.
The sharing of data and information concerns will lead to better
Business and IT efficiency and can lead to innovative behaviour.
Provides a common, pre-approved language of business assets from which solution architecture should be built
Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture
Establishes a framework that exists between application, service, and data-related components to further consistent naming, communication, and reuse of solution components
Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture
Identifies prioritized focal points across value streams, capabilities, and information through the use of heat mapping, impact analysis, and value mapping
Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture
Outlines desired transformation from current state to future state, which can be used to drive IT architecture strategy, direction, focus, and investment
Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture
Prevents the narrow scope of an “IT focus” when outlining the direction of an IT solution
Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture
Looks beyond a project-by-project focus to ensure that stakeholder value and business unit strategies are addressed holistically
Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture
Ensures that business goals and IT goals are aligned and synchronized from planning through delivery
Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation
Focuses IT on delivering sustainable business value while avoiding quick fix solutions that serve to increase technical debt and deliver sub-optimal solutions
Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation
Provides a business-driven roadmap to guide IT strategy while ensuring that IT spending aligns to business strategy
Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation
Links IT funding to business-driven strategy, initiatives, and priorities and allows executives to determine where IT spending may not be delivering business value
Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation
Establishes a frame of reference for balancing and aligning technological investments with business priorities
Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation
Business architecture provides a framework for process governance at an enterprise level.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture/process mapping establishes insights in process redundancy across business units and organisations.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture/process mapping surfaces differences in overlapping or related processes.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture provides a top-down business perspective for planning process related work, changes, and improvements.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture/process mapping enables multiple teams to benefit from process improvements made by other teams.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture/process mapping delivers insights into business transformation as it relates to value delivery.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture provides process modelling teams with an aggregate perspective to envision where multiple, parallel workflows may need to be active across the business.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture enables process management teams to determine quickly which capabilities may be improved at various points in the value delivery cycle.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture pinpoints capability-related business weaknesses and limitations that signal potential process improvement opportunities.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Business architecture enables process teams to assess where critical information is involved in various processes, through the mapping sequence of value stream to capability to information mapping.
Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture
Provides a context for replicating and reusing LSS work across business units and product lines.
Value stream / Lean Value Stream mapping
Provides a context for determining that business unit rationalisation/consolidation rather than Lean replication/reuse may be more appropriate in the circumstances.
Value stream / Lean Value Stream mapping
Ensures that upstream and downstream activities, stakeholders, and other factors are incorporated into lean work.
A value stream perspective
Deliver a framework for LSS projects, benefits analysis, and collaboration across business areas.
Value stream views
Offers an implementation context for recommendations related to a given business architecture value stream.
LSS
Leverage capability mappings to identify reusable concepts and, optionally, technology requirements needed to fully “lean” a Lean Value Stream.
LSS deployments
Enabling management to monitor progress toward the objectives outlined in the business strategy.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Providing insight into which initiatives are working and which ones are not working to drive and enable those outcomes.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Surfacing why things are working well or not well so that alternative approaches can be chosen or the path being followed can be corrected.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Delivering metrics that show how effectively and how quickly an organisation is progressing toward its operational targets.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Creating a basis for determining the unintended consequences of actions being taken to pursue an objective.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Offering insights into root cause analysis.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Enabling predictive determination of future actions based on quantitative analysis of past results.
Benefit of Business Performance Measurement
Shared business vocabulary offers analysts and business stakeholders a common language and context from which to build requirements, reducing confusion that stems from different stakeholders each having a unique vocabulary. This also eliminates the need to redefine business concepts from project-to-project.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Business concepts such as capability, value stream, organisation, and information enable analysts to establish a more complete scope of a given requirement during initial planning sessions through deployment, reducing the risk of misinterpreting scope.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Business architecture provides a framework for evaluating business investments within and across portfolios. This provides a holistic view of the strategic business roadmaps and key performance indicators that guide project scope, sequencing and context.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
In turn, this framework formalises the traceability of requirements from strategic direction through solution deployment. Portfolio-based analysis can be leveraged by enterprise business analysis, as well as within a portfolio to ensure appropriate alignment of requirements effort and focus.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Value streams provide clarity as to how a given business requirement delivers value to specific business stakeholders, providing input to a project business case. This value perspective can also be utilised in building requirements as a focal point of requirement value and relevancy.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
User stories and use cases, framed within the context of value streams and capabilities, enable analysts to define a clearer set of requirements acceptance criteria.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Business architecture provides a shared context across business teams and business units as input to requirements, ensuring that conflicting or overlapping requirements are addressed appropriately across business boundaries.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Business architecture heat maps and impact ratings allow analysts to prioritise requirements based on business need and impact.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Business architecture enables informed business decisions through the identification of capability gaps/overlaps, misalignment between value propositions, and delivery channels. Business architecture / IT architecture mapping pinpoints the impact of artefacts to be built or modified within the scope of a given project.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Improved categorisation of requirements using business architecture limits variation in requirement definition and structure from analyst to analyst. In turn, this allows for better reuse of requirements across projects and business units, and builds incremental knowledge within each capability.
Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment
Enables the business architect role to be formally recognized and differentiated from other roles, lending further credibility to the role and the discipline
Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition
Articulates the value of a business architect
Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition
Creates consistency during the hiring process by creating a common definition and expectation of the role
Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition
Provides a way to assess and improve business architect competencies and performance
Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition
Defines a career path for business architects
Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition
Provides a common industry definition which can be aligned with other enterprise architecture roles and roles in related disciplines
Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition
Rapid analysis of a complete view of that aspect of the business which includes end- to-end stakeholder value delivery coupled with what the business must do to deliver that value
Benefit of value stream / capability mapping
Value stream driven priorities enable management to prioritize certain capabilities need to improve those value streams
Benefit of value stream / capability mapping
Value stream stages requiring the same widely-used capabilities help to highlight where businesses can maximize investments in capability improvement
Benefit of value stream / capability mapping
Value streams highlight where certain capabilities may be missing or were accidently missed during capability mapping
Benefit of value stream / capability mapping
