Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital Business Models within a competitive digital environment,
- Establishing the Enterprise as Data-Ready,
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Strategies for ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes based on "Data",
- Refining the path from Enterprise Vision to Business Processes,
- Steps to align IT systems with evolving business needs.
Achieving Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change: Utilizing Goal and Data-Driven Structures from the business down to IT systems,
- The core of Business Architecture, structured around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Strategies for structuring evolution in capabilities based on shifting strategies,
- Mechanisms for propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated with case study examples in the presentation).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into the components of 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 require impact assessment due to changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided using the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps for developing an Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance amidst change.
Note: The above training-mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained through case study examples. In the case of on-site sessions, these may be followed by the development of solution drafts for your specific business case during the course.
Minor adjustments to content may be made in response to evolving 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 for IT Reference Architectures from the Open Group.
The Business and Value Model Canvases are trademarks owned by Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
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- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
Price per private group, online live training, starting from 1600 € + VAT*
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