Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-Day Workshop)
Introduction
- Navigating digital disruption, and understanding value creation and delivery mechanisms,
- Developing Digital Business Models to thrive in a competitive digital environment,
- Establishing a Data-Ready Enterprise for digital readiness,
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- Reviewing System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- Exploring IT Reference Architectures,
- Strategies to ensure Convergence and Alignment across these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes by leveraging a data-centric approach,
- Translating Enterprise Vision into actionable Business Processes,
- Methodologies for aligning IT capabilities with evolving business requirements.
Cultivating Agility: Leveraging Capabilities to Connect Business and IT Systems
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change, from high-level goals to system execution,
- Structuring Business Architecture around core capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Adapting capabilities in response to shifting strategic priorities,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through presentation case studies).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Synchronizing business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into the broader business process cartography.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Applying Goal and Data-Driven Structures to the System backbone to facilitate adaptability,
- Identifying specific Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (supported by the same case study examples).
Conclusion
- Steps in 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 training and mentoring sessions above are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain high-level traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples. For on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments based on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are registered trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures held by the Open Group.
The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML, as referenced on this website, are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
