Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, value creation, and value delivery in the digital context
- Digital business models navigating a competitive digital landscape
- Building a Data-Ready Enterprise for the digital age
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- IT Reference Architectures
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between various frameworks and architectures
- Enhancing decision-making processes through a data-centric approach
- Refining strategies from the Enterprise Vision down to specific Business Processes
- Steps for aligning IT with the evolving needs of the business
Achieving Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change through Goal and Data-Driven structures
- Structuring Business Architecture around capabilities and value delivery functions as the core backbone
- Structuring capability evolution based on shifting strategic priorities
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via case study examples)
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components
Impacts on IT System Components
- Using Goal and Data-Driven structures as the system backbone to support change
- Identifying Services and underlying system functions affected by changes
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (using the same case study examples)
Conclusion
- Key steps in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures for better governance during change
Note: The training and mentoring sessions described above 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 through case study examples. For on-site sessions, participants may be guided to draft solutions for their own business cases.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments based on the evolution of 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, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark of the Open Group for IT Reference Architectures.
The Business Model and Value Model Canvases 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.
