Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital business models operating within a competitive digital landscape,
- Transforming into a data-ready digital enterprise,
- The "Goal and Data-Driven" structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- Systems engineering and enterprise architecture frameworks,
- IT reference architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Strengthening data-driven decision-making,
- Refining the enterprise vision down to business processes,
- Steps to align IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Gaining Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: implementing goal- and data-driven structures from business to IT systems,
- The backbone of business architecture structured around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions based on changing strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through a 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 components of the business process cartography.
Impacts on IT System Components
- The goal- and data-driven structures of the system backbone to support change,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions that must be affected by the changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided using the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps of the efficient agile business and system architecture development methodology,
- Traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to better govern them amidst change.
Notice: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to illustrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples, and during on-site sessions, participants may proceed to develop solution drafts for their own business cases.
Minor adjustments may be made to the content based on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are 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 Defence, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures from the Open Group.
The Business and Value Model Canvases are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
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