Document Your Business Architecture

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Major Business Pain Points

  • You don’t know where or how to begin, or how to engage the right people, model the business, and drive the value of business architecture.
  • There is confusion around how to create effective blueprints that accurately model the right parts of the business.
  • Alternatively, you have drawn up great models, but are unable to put them into use.
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Recommendations

Key Points

Successful execution of business strategy requires planning that:

  1. Accurately reflects organizational capabilities.
  2. Is traceable so all levels can understand how decisions are made.
  3. Makes efficient use of organizational resources.

In order to accomplish this, the business architect must engage stakeholders, model the business, and drive planning with business architecture.

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Approach

Engage your stakeholders.

  • Recognize the opportunity for architecture work, analyze the current and target states of your business strategy, and identify and engage the right stakeholders.

Model the business in the form of architectural blueprints.

  • Apply business architecture techniques such as strategy maps, value streams, and business capability maps to design usable and accurate blueprints of the business.

Drive business architecture forward to promote real value to the organization.

  • Assess your current projects to determine if you are investing in the right capabilities. Conduct business capability assessments to identify opportunities and to prioritize projects.
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Methodology and Tools

Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should practice business architecture, review the methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

  • Document Your Business Architecture – Executive Brief
  • Document Your Business Architecture – Phases 1-3

1. Engage stakeholders

Identify opportunities for business architecture work, identify project stakeholders, and effectively engage stakeholders.

  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Phase 1: Engage
  • Stakeholder Engagement Strategy Template
  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Module A: Opportunity Identification

2. Model and standardize

Analyze business objectives and design the target or transitionary state business architecture blueprints by applying techniques such as strategy mapping, value stream mapping, and business capability mapping.

  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Phase 2: Model
  • Strategy Map and Scorecard Template
  • Value Stream Map Template
  • Business Capability Map Template
  • Business Architecture Industry Accelerators
  • Value Stream – Capability Mapping Template
  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Module B: Value Creation
  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Module C: Value Delivery
  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Module D: Accelerate

3. Drive adoption and compliance

Determine the gaps between the baseline and target state descriptions by conducting business capability assessments, identifying options for resolution, and defining roadmap components.

  • Bridge IT and the Business With Business Architecture – Phase 3: Drive
  • Application Capability Template
  • Capability Assessment Worksheet
  • Capability Prioritization Template
  • Initiative Portfolio Map Template

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