Course Outline
Achieving Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, value creation, and value delivery,
- Navigating digital business models within a competitive digital landscape,
- Transitioning towards a Data-Ready Enterprise,
- Exploring the Goal and Data Driven structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- Understanding IT Reference Architectures,
- Strategies to ensure convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making through data-driven approaches,
- Refining the transition from Enterprise Vision to Business Processes,
- Key steps to align IT with evolving business requirements.
Gaining Agility: Leveraging Capabilities from Business to IT Systems
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Utilizing Goal and Data Driven Structures from Business to IT Systems,
- Structuring the backbone of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring evolutions in capabilities based on shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (with examples from the presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to facilitate change support,
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions impacted by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (with examples from the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps involved in developing an Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance during changes.
Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to illustrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained using case study examples. In on-site sessions, these may be followed by solution drafts tailored to your specific business case during the sessions.
Minor adjustments to the content may occur depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.
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Testimonials (1)
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
