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A strategic mapping framework supports

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Organizational alignment

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A strategic mapping framework improves

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Communication and fidelity of objectives

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A strategic mapping framework assists organizations in

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Adapting rapidly

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A strategic mapping framework enables the

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Rationalization of initiatives

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Strategy mapping frameworks support

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Capability-centric investment

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A strategic mapping framework provides the ability to monitor

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An organization’s progress towards strategic objectives

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Capabilities provide businesses with

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A common vocabulary

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Capabilities provide a way to see what is

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Common across a business

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Capabilities enable

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Laser-like business investment focus

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Capabilities serve as a baseline for __, __, and __

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strategic planning, change management, and impact analysis

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Capabilities are the basis for __, and __

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Transformational design and deployment

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Organization mapping provides organizational context for __, __, and __

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issue analysis, planning, and solution deployment

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Organization mapping improves

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Strategic planning and investment analysis

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Organization mapping exposes opportunities for improved __ and __

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Collaboration and communication

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Organization mapping fills in

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The “white space” in the hierarchy chart

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Value maps provide a common baseline for envisioning

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How to deliver high visibility stakeholder value

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Value maps provide clear focal points for

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Prioritizing how to achieve stakeholder value

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Value maps enable delivery of

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Near-term, mid-term, and long-term value to stakeholders

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Value maps provide new and unique ways to

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Envision stakeholder engagement

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Value maps enable prioritization and managed

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Deployment of business capabilities

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Ability to deliver customer value more effectively is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Improved strategic planning and financial management is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Communication and collaboration across business units is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Communication and collaboration across business partners is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Streamlined merger and acquisition deployments is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Improved integrity of financial and other executive reporting is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Increased accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of regulatory compliance is a

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Benefit of information mapping

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Initiative maps allow organizations to gain a comprehensive view of

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How their investments support strategic investment priorities

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Initiative maps provide visibility into

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The alignment of an organization’s efforts to pursue its objectives

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Initiative maps enable portfolio decisions by

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Capturing the complex relationships among initiatives

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Initiative maps support the creation of

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Roadmaps to provide horizon-based planning

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Initiative maps enable

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Dynamic reevaluation of in-flight initiatives

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Product mapping offers visibility into the

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Overall product ecosystem

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Product mapping enables executives to target specific products or product lines in response to a

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Given set of business strategies

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Product mapping enables executives to target __ or __ in response to a given set of business strategies

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Specific products or product lines

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Product mapping provides a focal point to make __ and __ in conjunction with a given business strategy

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Product investment decisions and funding allocation

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Product mapping provides a focal point to make product investment decisions and funding allocation in conjunction with

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A given business strategy

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Product mapping offers a point of focus for

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Determining how to improve product performance

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Product mapping provides a basis for

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Streamlining product design, creation, and packaging

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Product mapping provides an additional viewpoint for

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Aligning value-specific context to certain views of the business architecture

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Product mapping offers visibility into

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How initiatives positively affect related products or product lines

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Product mapping offers visibility into

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How initiatives negatively affect related products or product lines

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Stakeholder mapping provides a context for determining

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How to achieve and deliver customer value

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Stakeholder mapping identifies __, __, __, and __ within the context of stakeholder value delivery

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Third-party partners, suppliers, agents, and related stakeholders

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Stakeholder mapping offers a perspective on how to prioritize various value streams based on

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The stakeholders benefiting from those value streams

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Stakeholder mapping establishes a context for

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Externalized resource enablement for certain capabilities

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Stakeholder mapping provides a basis for identifying the

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Role of stakeholders that participate in various value stream stages

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Stakeholder mapping highlights specific areas of focus of various internal stakeholders and

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How they deliver externally and internally focused value to the business

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Stakeholder mapping offers business executives a concrete set of

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Stakeholder focal points as input to strategic planning work

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Centralizing policy definition and tracking within a formal framework increases

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The level of maturity of policy management, policy dissemination, policy enforcement, and policy compliance

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Formalizing the relationship between policy and goals and objectives helps structure strategy in a way that

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Aligns to internal and external principles, rules, and regulations

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Formally mapping policy to business units, products, stakeholders, capabilities, and other business perspectives enables management to

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Demonstrate policy conformance to management, auditors, and regulators

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Formally mapping policy to __, __, __, __, and other business perspectives enables management to demonstrate policy conformance to management, auditors, and regulators

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Business units, products, stakeholders, capabilities,

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Linking priority policies to value streams and capabilities

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Highlights focal points for business investments.

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Linking priority policies to __ and __ highlights focal points for business investments.

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Value streams and capabilities

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Formalizing the link between policy and initiatives helps

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Prioritize initiatives and highlight interdependencies

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Linking policy into an overall business ecosystem and formal business architecture framework facilitates

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Creation of holistic metrics and KPIs for executives

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58
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Business vision and related objectives can be interpreted and addressed effectively through

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The formal mapping between business architecture and IT architecture.

59
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Business-driven planning can be aligned more effectively to IT strategy through

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Business/IT architecture alignment approaches.

60
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Business/IT alignment enables more effective

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planning and funding of IT projects.

61
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Business architecture provides a framework for ___ that expedite delivery of business value.

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Expedited, streamlined business design approaches

62
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Business architecture provides a framework for expedited, streamlined business design approaches that

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Expedite delivery of business value.

63
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Exposing current state IT architecture that impact business weaknesses, gaps, and risks provides a framework

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For more effective, highly focused requirements analysis.

64
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Synchronised business/IT alignment enables business driven roadmaps that allow

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The business to drive business/IT transformation efforts.

65
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Business/IT alignment provides a framework for effective

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Application and data architecture management.

66
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Brings a robust, business centric focus to the discipline of enterprise architecture

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Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit

67
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Integrates all aspects of strategic analysis and planning through solution deployment

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Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit

68
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Provides a complete business and IT perspective to issue analysis and cost/benefit analysis

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Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit

69
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Aligns multiple disciplines across the business and technology teams to maximize investments while optimizing value

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Business Architecture / Enterprise Architecture Alignment Benefit

70
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Establishes clear traceability from strategic objectives, business impacts, project definition, and requirement analysis

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

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Enables the business to frame various projects within the context of a comprehensive, business transformation strategy

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

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Offers a well-articulated frame of reference to define project scoping and phasing from a business perspective

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

73
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Provides the business with the context for establishing project return on investment analysis

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

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Helps shape project scope by providing a comprehensive, consistent, and robust understanding of various aspects of the business tied to a given business objective

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

75
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Provides clear insights into current state IT architecture impacts

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

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Clarifies insights into data architecture and service-oriented architecture articulation and governance

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

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Provides a framework for requirements analysis, derivation, and reuse

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Benefit of Aligning SDLC to Business Architecture

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Allows executives to make better investments in application portfolios

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Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management

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Places application value in a more strategic perspective

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Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management

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Helps determine which applications should stay, be improved, or be retired

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Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management

81
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Identifies risks, weaknesses, and gaps in the application portfolio from a business perspective.

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Benefit of Applying Capability Mapping to Application Portfolio Management

82
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Business architecture provides a context for transforming business objectives into deployable solutions through

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SOA streamlining vision to solution paths.

83
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Business-driven SOA delivers IT solutions that align more effectively to the business, which in turn create

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A more responsive IT environment.

84
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IT gains a clearer perspective on how to deliver specific business solutions across __ through __.

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business units, business architecture. (SOA)

85
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Value stream / capability mapping to current state architecture provides a perspective as to how to incorporate services into

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Legacy IT environments and transform those environments to SOA, and

86
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Value stream / capability mapping to current state architecture provides a perspective as to how to

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Enhance IT to support new business requirements and initiatives.

87
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Aligning data management practices with business architecture can identify

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Quality and security issues to be addressed by data managers.

88
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The alignment process results in a better understanding of the

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Domain of data management by the business architects

89
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The alignment process results in a better understanding of the

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Objectives, structure, and function of the business by data managers.

90
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The sharing of data and information concerns will lead to better

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Business and IT efficiency and can lead to innovative behaviour.

91
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Provides a common, pre-approved language of business assets from which solution architecture should be built

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Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture

92
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Establishes a framework that exists between application, service, and data-related components to further consistent naming, communication, and reuse of solution components

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Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture

93
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Identifies prioritized focal points across value streams, capabilities, and information through the use of heat mapping, impact analysis, and value mapping

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Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture

94
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Outlines desired transformation from current state to future state, which can be used to drive IT architecture strategy, direction, focus, and investment

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Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture

95
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Prevents the narrow scope of an “IT focus” when outlining the direction of an IT solution

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Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture

96
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Looks beyond a project-by-project focus to ensure that stakeholder value and business unit strategies are addressed holistically

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Benefit of Aligning Solution Architecture to Business Architecture

97
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Ensures that business goals and IT goals are aligned and synchronized from planning through delivery

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Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation

98
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Focuses IT on delivering sustainable business value while avoiding quick fix solutions that serve to increase technical debt and deliver sub-optimal solutions

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Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation

99
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Provides a business-driven roadmap to guide IT strategy while ensuring that IT spending aligns to business strategy

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Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation

100
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Links IT funding to business-driven strategy, initiatives, and priorities and allows executives to determine where IT spending may not be delivering business value

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Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation

101
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Establishes a frame of reference for balancing and aligning technological investments with business priorities

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Benefit of Business/IT Architecture Transformation

102
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Business architecture provides a framework for process governance at an enterprise level.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

103
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Business architecture/process mapping establishes insights in process redundancy across business units and organisations.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

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Business architecture/process mapping surfaces differences in overlapping or related processes.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

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Business architecture provides a top-down business perspective for planning process related work, changes, and improvements.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

106
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Business architecture/process mapping enables multiple teams to benefit from process improvements made by other teams.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

107
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Business architecture/process mapping delivers insights into business transformation as it relates to value delivery.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

108
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Business architecture provides process modelling teams with an aggregate perspective to envision where multiple, parallel workflows may need to be active across the business.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

109
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Business architecture enables process management teams to determine quickly which capabilities may be improved at various points in the value delivery cycle.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

110
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Business architecture pinpoints capability-related business weaknesses and limitations that signal potential process improvement opportunities.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

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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.

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Benefit of Aligning Business Processes with Business Architecture

112
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Provides a context for replicating and reusing LSS work across business units and product lines.

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Value stream / Lean Value Stream mapping

113
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Provides a context for determining that business unit rationalisation/consolidation rather than Lean replication/reuse may be more appropriate in the circumstances.

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Value stream / Lean Value Stream mapping

114
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Ensures that upstream and downstream activities, stakeholders, and other factors are incorporated into lean work.

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A value stream perspective

115
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Deliver a framework for LSS projects, benefits analysis, and collaboration across business areas.

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Value stream views

116
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Offers an implementation context for recommendations related to a given business architecture value stream.

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LSS

117
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Leverage capability mappings to identify reusable concepts and, optionally, technology requirements needed to fully “lean” a Lean Value Stream.

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LSS deployments

118
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Enabling management to monitor progress toward the objectives outlined in the business strategy.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

119
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Providing insight into which initiatives are working and which ones are not working to drive and enable those outcomes.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

120
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Surfacing why things are working well or not well so that alternative approaches can be chosen or the path being followed can be corrected.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

121
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Delivering metrics that show how effectively and how quickly an organisation is progressing toward its operational targets.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

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Creating a basis for determining the unintended consequences of actions being taken to pursue an objective.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

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Offering insights into root cause analysis.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

124
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Enabling predictive determination of future actions based on quantitative analysis of past results.

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Benefit of Business Performance Measurement

125
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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

127
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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

128
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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

131
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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

132
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Business architecture heat maps and impact ratings allow analysts to prioritise requirements based on business need and impact.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

133
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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

134
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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.

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Benefit of Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment

135
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Enables the business architect role to be formally recognized and differentiated from other roles, lending further credibility to the role and the discipline

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Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition

136
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Articulates the value of a business architect

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Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition

137
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Creates consistency during the hiring process by creating a common definition and expectation of the role

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Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition

138
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Provides a way to assess and improve business architect competencies and performance

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Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition

139
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Defines a career path for business architects

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Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition

140
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Provides a common industry definition which can be aligned with other enterprise architecture roles and roles in related disciplines

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Benefit of Business Architect Role Definition

141
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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

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Benefit of value stream / capability mapping

142
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Value stream driven priorities enable management to prioritize certain capabilities need to improve those value streams

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Benefit of value stream / capability mapping

143
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Value stream stages requiring the same widely-used capabilities help to highlight where businesses can maximize investments in capability improvement

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Benefit of value stream / capability mapping

144
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Value streams highlight where certain capabilities may be missing or were accidently missed during capability mapping

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Benefit of value stream / capability mapping

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