Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-Day Course)
Introduction
- Navigating digital disruption, focusing on value creation and delivery,
- Digital business models in a highly competitive digital environment,
- Building a digital, data-ready enterprise,
- Leveraging 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 between various frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes based on robust data foundations,
- Refining the enterprise vision to define specific business processes,
- Aligning IT strategies with the evolving needs of the business.
Building Agility: Leveraging Capabilities to Connect Business and IT Systems
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: Applying goal and data-driven structures from business to IT,
- Establishing the core of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolution in response to strategic shifts,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through case study examples).
The Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
The Impact on IT System Components
- Utilizing the goal and data-driven structures of the system backbone to support change,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions that require adjustment,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (demonstrated via the same case study).
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of an efficient, agile business and system architecture development methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT system structures for better governance during change.
Note: The training-mentoring sessions above 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 introduced through case study examples, and in the case of on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case.
Content may undergo minor adjustments based on the evolution of these 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 Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures owned by the Open Group.
The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML 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.
