Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Navigating digital disruption, focusing on value creation and delivery,
- Examining digital business models in the context of a competitive digital landscape,
- Strategies for becoming a Digital Data Ready Enterprise,
- Understanding the "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model,
- Exploring System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- Reviewing IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring Convergence and Alignment across various frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes through a data-centric approach,
- Refining the journey from Enterprise Vision to specific Business Processes,
- Key steps to align IT systems with the evolving needs of the business.
Gaining Agility: Bridging Business and IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change using Goal and Data Driven Structures from Business to IT Systems,
- Defining the backbone of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions in response to shifting strategic priorities,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects to remain coherent with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Implications for IT System Components
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the system backbone to facilitate change,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions that require modification due to changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided within the same case study).
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance during periods of change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to demonstrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples; for on-site sessions, these may be followed by solution drafts applied to your own business cases.
Content may undergo minor adjustments based on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
The Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks belonging to the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures by the Open Group.
The Business and Value Model Canvases are trademarks held by Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML, as referenced on this website, are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
Testimonials (3)
Managing priorities, time management and productivity performance
Va Ros - Swiss Cooperation Office and Consular Agency in Laos
Course - Advanced Productivity Enhancement for Programme Professionals
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Agile Business Analysis
comparing theory to practical life
