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Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)

Introduction

  • Digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery.
  • Navigating digital business models within a competitive digital landscape.
  • Establishing an enterprise that is ready for digital data.
  • 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.
  • Strengthening decision-making processes through data-driven insights.
  • Translating enterprise vision into refined business processes.
  • Steps to align IT systems with evolving business needs.

Achieving Agility: Leveraging Capabilities from Business to IT Systems

  • Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: Implementing goal and data-driven structures from business to IT systems.
  • Structuring the backbone of business architecture around capabilities and value delivery functions.
  • Structuring capability evolution based on shifting strategies.
  • Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through presentation case studies).

Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)

  • Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes.
  • Integrating these modifications into the business process cartography components.

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 impacted by changes.
  • Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided via the same case study).

Conclusion

  • Steps for developing an efficient agile methodology for business and system architecture.
  • Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to better govern change.

Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to illustrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.

Concepts are first explained using case study examples. In on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions tailored to your specific business cases during the sessions.

Minor adjustments to the content may be made depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.

Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International.

DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, 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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