Business Architecture Practice and Governance Flashcards
Is the goal to leverage business architecture to facilitate strategic planning, address executive priorities, deliver customer value, leverage investments in major initiatives, and deploy horizontal solutions across business units?
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (Fundamental Question)
Is the goal to use business architecture as away to address tactical business requirements?
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (Fundamental Question)
Addressing merger, acquisition, divestiture, or similar organizational streamlining or consolidation
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Managing holistic views of product and service delivery across business partners
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Streamlining policy management across disparate or partially autonomous division
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Comparing and evaluating core capabilities against competitors
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Creating a common, highly transparent view of customers and other stakeholders
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Increasing the consistency and integrity of operational and executive information
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Determining the impact of regulatory or related compliance across business units
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Recognizing, harvesting, and delivering improved innovation to customer
Determine Business Architecture Objectives (strategies, issues, and challenges)
Executive issues not getting addressed due to inability to communicate requirements to solution teams
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Stakeholder/customer issues related to misalignment of concepts or terminology
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Multiple business units delivering conflicting information
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Inability to synchronize information due to conflicting vocabulary
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Issues related to multiple teams working at cross-purposes and delivering poorly synchronized results
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Failures related to miscommunication or inarticulate requirements
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Cost of developing business requirements that are not delivering results
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Issues related to executive reporting or synchronization of financial information
Communicate Business Value (salient issues)
Focus on high payback areas where costs or uncontrolled growth are spiraling
Communicate Business Value (Executive focus area)
Identify one or more customer related opportunities that are high on the priority list
Communicate Business Value (Executive focus area)
Review governance issues impacting how well the organization performs
Communicate Business Value (Executive focus area)
Empower teams to seek cross-disciplinary solutions where required to address issues
Communicate Business Value (Executive focus area)
Investment and initiative planning that leverages value streams and capabilities as a way to clarify scope and focus
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (step to achieving early value)
Analysis of business value for projects based on capability and value related improvements driven by business strategy
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (step to achieving early value)
Positioning and communicating business priorities using business architecture terminology and concepts
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (step to achieving early value)
Globalization efforts to realign the regionally focused enterprise
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (high visibility initiatives)
Shifting to a customer focused, versus product line or regionally focused, business model
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (high visibility initiatives)
Business unit consolidation and realignment
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (high visibility initiatives)
Establishment of a joint venture or business capability outsourcing
Assess Opportunities to Leverage Business Architecture (high visibility initiatives)
Should be put in place early, but must be based on the premise of business ownership, business sponsorship, and representation from essential business areas
Establish Business Architecture Governance Structure
Should be established prior to moving too quickly in subsequent stages of deployment
Establish Business Architecture Governance Structure
The capability map is the one foundational aspect of business architecture that readily maps to each of the other foundational aspects: organization, value, and information
Establish Business Architecture Baseline (capability map as a foundation)
Capability maps establish a common vocabulary upon which to base information maps
Establish Business Architecture Baseline (capability map as a foundation)
Capability maps take the most time to establish yet provide the most comprehensive view of what a business does at its core
Establish Business Architecture Baseline (capability map as a foundation)
Capabilities offer the most flexible mapping to the extended business architecture as well as IT application architecture
Establish Business Architecture Baseline (capability map as a foundation)
Identifying pressing business issues that leverage the business architecture
Leverage Business Architecture in Initiative Planning (activities)
Using the business architecture to establish the project scope for each of these initiatives
Leverage Business Architecture in Initiative Planning (activities)
Using the business architecture to establish the project scope for each of these initiatives
Leverage Business Architecture in Initiative Planning (activities)
Updating capability and value stream stage heat map ratings
Expand Business Architecture (activities)
Adding increasingly detailed views to various maps
Expand Business Architecture (activities)
Evolving the organization map
Expand Business Architecture (activities)
Incorporating new information concepts
Expand Business Architecture (activities)
Extending business architecture into other areas as required
Expand Business Architecture (activities)
Refinement of the business architecture to reflect ongoing business transformation and related changes
Refine Business Architecture Governance & Deployment (activities)
More detailed capability mapping based on emerging scenarios and transformation requirements
Refine Business Architecture Governance & Deployment (activities)
Additional and more granular value mapping / capability mapping
Refine Business Architecture Governance & Deployment (activities)
Expanded or more detailed mappings across business architecture and business-to-IT architecture
Refine Business Architecture Governance & Deployment (activities)
Use of business architecture on an increasingly broadening set of business transformation scenarios
Refine Business Architecture Governance & Deployment (activities)
Expanded use of business architecture in strategy and roadmap creation, budgeting and funding, and partner and outsourcing alignment
Refine Business Architecture Governance & Deployment (activities)
Must be in a senior leadership role within the business (not IT).
Business Sponsor:
It is very difficult to build a capability map without this role because capability naming, definition development, validation, socialization, and utilization all hit roadblocks
Business Sponsor:
Effort should be led by a business lead or at a minimum a business architect with deep business knowledge.
Business Lead:
The important factor is for someone from the business to be the face of the business architecture effort
Business Lead:
There should always be this role, who can facilitate working sessions, refine the capability mapping, and help socialise the map.
Business Co-Lead:
This person must be from a business unit that represents a mainstream aspect of the business.
Business Co-Lead:
The team will need to have a core set of representatives with knowledge of all major aspects of the business.
Core Subject Matter Experts:
The focus for these individuals is to map out as much of the customer-facing and selected strategic capabilities as possible.
Core Subject Matter Experts:
Well-versed in capability mapping and business architecture in general.
Mentor:
Does not lead working sessions, he or she would participate in these sessions and work behind the scenes to ensure that the team leverages and benefits from best practices.
Mentor:
Specialise in the knowledge, information and wisdom needs of the organisation.
Information Architects
Trained in techniques for modelling business information and linking it to the other viewpoints of the business architecture.
Information Architects
Experts on data modelling and organising enterprise data for a variety of scenarios.
Data Architects
Do not have the business knowledge or access to business professionals required to create the information map from a business perspective.
Data Architects
Live within a subject area typically defined by a common capability.
Data Stewards
May already have completed some of the groundwork required to align terms and definitions across a given area, which is typically defined by a level one capability.
Data Stewards