Course Outline
Enhancing Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (1-Day Course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, along with the mechanisms for digital value creation and delivery,
- Navigating Digital Business Models within a highly competitive digital environment,
- Establishing a Digital Data-Ready Enterprise,
- Leveraging the "Goal and Data Driven" structures inherent in the Business Motivation Model,
- Exploring System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- Reviewing IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment across these various Frameworks and Architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes by grounding them in a "Data" foundation,
- Refining the transition from Enterprise Vision to specific Business Processes,
- Defining the steps necessary to align IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Achieving Agility: Leveraging Capabilities to Connect Business and IT Systems
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change through Goal and Data-Driven structures spanning from business to IT systems,
- Building the core of Business Architecture around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions in response to shifting strategic priorities,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via a presentation case study).
The Effect of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects to reflect strategic shifts coherently,
- Integrating these modifications into the broader business process cartography.
Impact on IT System Components
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support adaptation,
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions that require adjustment due to changes,
- Integrating these evolutions into the Service backbone (demonstrated using the same case study).
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of an Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance in the face of change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain strong traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Key concepts are first introduced through case study examples; in on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business scenarios.
Content may undergo minor adjustments to reflect updates in standards or commercial strategies.
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DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are Architecture Frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
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The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
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Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
