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Business Unit decomposes into

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Business Unit

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Business Unit composed from

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Capability delivered by

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Business Unit delivers

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Capability

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Business Unit belongs to

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Organisation

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Organisation has

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Business Unit

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Capability supported by

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Information Concept

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Information Concept supports

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Capability

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Capability is impacted by

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Initiative

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Initiative impacts

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Capability

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Capability enabled by

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Product

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Product enables

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Capability

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Capability is enabled by

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Value Stage

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Value Stage enables

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Capability

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Information Concept informed by

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Capability

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Capability informs

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Information Concept

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Information Concept informed by

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Objective

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Objective informs

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Information Concept

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Information Concept defines

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder defined by

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Information Concept

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Initiative realizes

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Objective

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Objective is realized by

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Initiative

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Initiative impacts

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Product

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Product is impacted by

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Initiative

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Objective motivates

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Initiative

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Initiative is motivated by

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Objective

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Organisation is guided by

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Objective

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Objective guides

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Organisation

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Organisation delivers

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Product

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Product delivered by

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Organisation

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Organisation integrates through

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Strategy

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Strategy integrates for

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Organisation

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Product owned by

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Business Unit

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Business Unit owns

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Product

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Product relies on

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Capability

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Capability guides

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Product

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Product is valuable to

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder receives value from

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Product

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Product is impacted by

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Initiative

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Initiative impacts

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Product

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Product provided by

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Organisation

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Organisation provides

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Product

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Productis similar to

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Product

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Stakeholder enables

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Capability

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Capability is enabled by

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder owns

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Initiative

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Initiative is owned by

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder may be an

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Organisation

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Organisation a kind of

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder instantiated as

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Organisation

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Organisation type of

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder owns

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Strategy

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Strategy is owned by

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder triggers

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Value Stream

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Value Stream triggered by

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder participates in

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Value Stream Stage

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Value Stream Stage is participant of

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Stakeholder

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Strategy impacts

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Product

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Product impacted by

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Strategy

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Strategy owned by

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder owns

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Strategy

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Strategy aligned with

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Value Stream

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Value Stream aligns

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Strategy

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Value Stream enables

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Business Unit

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Business Unit is enabled by

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Value Stream

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Value Stream guides the direction for

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Product

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Product relies on

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Value Stream

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Value Stream parent of

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Value Stream Stage

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Value Stream Stage child of

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Value Stream

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Value Stream Stage is supported by

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Stakeholder

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Stakeholder participates in

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Value Stream Stage

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The business architecture knowledgebase provides the foundational perspective for formalising the

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definition, relationships, and management of business architecture artifacts

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The metamodel identifies the artefacts and relationships that serve as the foundation for

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storing and automating a business architecture practice.

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As a general rule, this metamodel would serve as the basis for automating

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the capture and dissemination of business architecture artefacts.

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The knowledgebase can be leveraged as a foundation for ensuring business blueprints are consistent, complete, and aligned

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across the organisation (vertically and horizontally).

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The knowledgebase can be leveraged as a foundation for ensuring ___ across the organisation (vertically and horizontally).

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business blueprints are consistent, complete, and aligned

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The knowledgebase should be aligned and informed using a metamodel to ensure blueprints are

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consistent, complete, and enable best practices and formal disciplines.

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The knowledgebase can be__ (a few documents and spreadsheets) or formal (__).

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informal, suggesting a sophisticated environment supported by a tool

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The knowledgebase may be formalised as part of

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an individual or federated repository.

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A standard practice involves having a small group of business architects govern

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The business architecture and its use across the organisation

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A standard practice involves having a small group of business architects ensure that business architecture artefacts

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Are properly identified (catalogued) and captured in the knowledgebase.

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A standard practice involves having a small group of business architects ensure that the underlying metamodel

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Supports a robust set of business architecture artefacts, relationships, and scenarios identified within the practice of business architecture.

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The overall business architecture objectives that the organisation has established for the knowledgebase.

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Consideration when defining the knowledgebase

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The desire for an organisation to shift from an ad hoc, simplistic business architecture environment to a sophisticated, highly leveraged business architecture environment.

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Consideration when defining the knowledgebase

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The ultimate level of sophistication envisions that business architecture can be used to trace

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strategy through execution and solution deployment across initiatives and business units.

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The ability of an organisation to engage tooling to allow the knowledgebase to fully support and enable the business architecture.

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Consideration when defining the knowledgebase

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__and __, will aid an organisation’s tool selection process.

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Well-considered objectives, enabling a knowledgebase, supported by a formal metamodel

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Every organisation has something in place for capturing their business architecture artefacts __, or __.

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Explicitly or implicitly

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A business architecture knowledgebase is built upon a metamodel that defines __, __, and the __.

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The core set of concept terms, definitions, relationships among those concepts

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In order to populate the knowledgebase with their own business-specific information, organisations must identify aspects of their business architecture, including:

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Value stream, capability, information, organisation, strategy and related concepts that contribute to achieving practice- related objectives.

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Promote the capture and sharing of business architecture knowledge to support consistent communications and understanding across business practices.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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The capture and sharing of business architecture knowledge includes

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The ability to provide traceability across planning, strategy, and initiative execution

93
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The capture and sharing of business architecture knowledge enables

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Business architecture to align with complementary disciplines including BPM, Lean Six Sigma, or business requirements analysis.

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Ensure that the knowledgebase and practice are informed by scenarios that cover the enterprise perspective and relevant local and regional perspectives.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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Establish and maintain a metamodel that encapsulates the core concepts (terms) and relationships as used across the organisation.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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Any enterprise business architecture repository must be able to ___ in order to provide an integrated view of the organization.

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coexist with and link to multiple existing repositories

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Ensure the knowledgebase is populated properly with relevant business architecture artifacts to support value delivery for business initiatives and business scenarios.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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A knowledgebase is only as good as __ and __ of the business information being represented.

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the currency, integrity

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A knowledgebase is only as good as the currency and integrity of the business information being represented, particularly with

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The more volatile aspects such as strategy or initiative, which can evolve on a more fluid basis than core concepts

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Leverage technology to support the knowledgebase using a pragmatic approach.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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Ensure that the knowledgebase can integrate and link information from various domains and sources.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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Ensure that the business architecture knowledgebase can provide multiple business perspectives.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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In order to provide a holistic view of an organization it is essential that the business architecture reference model not embed ___, including, for example, an explicit business model that is likely to change often over time.

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Any particular perspective that would restrict its ability to support other perspectives

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Ensure that elements in the business architecture knowledgebase must not be restricted to any single element of the business architecture framework.

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Guideline for development of an effective business architecture knowledgebase

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The underlying metamodel helps align the semantics that exist in an organisation through

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Its glossary and the extensions that incorporate the context associated with different perspectives.

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A logical element or segment of a company (such as accounting, production, marketing) representing a specific business function, and a definite place on the organisational chart, under the domain of a manager. Also called department, division, or functional area.

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Business Unit (Metamodel Entity)

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A particular ability or capacity that a business may possess or exchange to achieve a specific purpose or outcome.

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Capability (Metamodel Entity)

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Core subject areas used to define the organization’s business model (e.g., Asset, Customer, Product, Location, Contract)

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Information Concept (Metamodel Entity)

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A course of action that is being executed or has been selected for execution.

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Initiative (Metamodel Entity)

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Measurable goals for guiding strategy and aligning initiatives with execution. They can be applied at individual, operational, business unit, and organisational levels.

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Objective (Metamodel Entity)

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A social unit of people, systematically structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals on a continuing basis.

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Organisation (Metamodel Entity)

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Customers “hire” them to help them achieve a set of desired outcomes associated with one or more jobs they are trying to get done. The value that one provides for a customer is measured by how well it helps that customer address their desired outcomes.

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Product (Metamodel Entity)

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An internal or external individual or organisation with a vested interest in achieving value through a particular outcome.

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Stakeholder (Metamodel Entity)

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The pattern or plan that integrates an organisation’s major goals, policies and action sequences into a cohesive whole.

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Strategy (Metamodel Entity)

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Representation of the series of interchanges with stakeholders as the value stream moves from left to right.

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Value Stage (Metamodel Entity)

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An end-to-end collection of activities that create a result for a customer, who may be the ultimate customer or an internal end-user of the value stream.

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Value Stream (Metamodel Entity)

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A value in formalising the metamodel as part of launching a business architecture practice is that

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It creates alignment around the key terms used by the organisation leadership

118
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A value in formalising the metamodel as part of launching a business architecture practice is that

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It helps everyone in the organization understand the relationships in the underlying business architecture

119
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A value in formalising the metamodel as part of launching a business architecture practice is that

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It helps everyone in the organization understand the importance of embracing the disciplines underlying business architecture

120
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One of the most common uses of the metamodel is for conducting

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Impact analysis to understand cause and effect (causality) or for planning change.

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Knowledgebase enabled analysis is important because it provides insights into __ that require examining business-wide impacts, failure points, transformation perspectives, and related priorities.

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How to meet significant and far-reaching objectives and strategies

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Knowledgebase enabled analysis is important because it provides insights into how to meet significant and far-reaching objectives and strategies that require

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Examining business-wide impacts, failure points, transformation perspectives, and related priorities.

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Facilities to load business architecture capabilities, value representations, information and business units

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Business architecture tool criteria (Capture)

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Ability to represent additional concepts including objectives, initiatives, stakeholders, products and services, and external third parties

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Business architecture tool criteria (Capture)

125
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Ability to view loaded artifacts in list, graphical, or other formats

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Business architecture tool criteria (Capture)

126
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Standard import facility using standards based and other industry input formats

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Business architecture tool criteria (Capture)

127
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Ability to support the definition of and relationships among business architecture representations, such as capability to business unit or capability to value stage

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Business architecture tool criteria (Capture)

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Ability to input data via application programming interfaces (APIs)

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Business architecture tool criteria (Capture)

129
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Robust repository for storing, cross-referencing, and accessing business architecture

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Business architecture tool criteria (Manage)

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Metamodel based repository that reflects industry standard relationships where available and practice-based relationships where appropriate

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Business architecture tool criteria (Manage)

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Ability to access the tool by authorized administrators and users that enables version control and historical management of metadata

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Business architecture tool criteria (Manage)

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Support for multiple simultaneous users and the ability to allow multiple streams of work to be managed and synchronized

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Business architecture tool criteria (Manage)

133
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Ability to generate standardized views of capability, organization, information, and value maps

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Business architecture tool criteria (Communicate)

134
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Ability to create customized or extended business architecture mapping views

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Business architecture tool criteria (Communicate)

135
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nabling of ad hoc views based on usage requirements

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Business architecture tool criteria (Communicate)

136
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Ability to export webpage views of business architecture blueprints and related information

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Business architecture tool criteria (Share)

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Business architecture export facility that uses industry standard exchange formats

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Business architecture tool criteria (Share)

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Open interchange formats as necessitated by evolution of data exchanges standards and protocols

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Business architecture tool criteria (Share)

139
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Export of views into standard tooling (e.g., MS Office) in a manner that enables further customization of views within these tools

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Business architecture tool criteria (Share)

140
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Initial building efforts may use Word or Excel to build out the business architecture

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Business Architecture Tool Selection Consideration

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Excel representations provide flexibility in initiating the business architecture and can be used to export those representations into an enterprise architecture tool

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Business Architecture Tool Selection Consideration

142
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Drawing tools can be used to enhance the limitations of MS Excel or the high-end enterprise architecture tools and creating custom blueprints

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Business Architecture Tool Selection Consideration

143
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Lightweight business architecture tools can co-exist with high-end enterprise architecture tools because the tools essentially serve a different purpose

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Business Architecture Tool Selection Consideration

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The business architecture tool should not dictate

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How to manage or represent the business architecture

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