Applied Business Architecture

Length

3 days

Price

$3740.00 inc GST

Overview

Applied Business Architecture is a hands-on course that combines elements of theory, practice and evaluation to provide attendees with an interactive learning experience in Business Architecture.

This three-day course will provide you with a practical understanding of:

How to link strategy and execution with effective planning
Mapping and communicating business motivation
Mapping business capabilities
How to use capability-based planning and business anchor models to develop a business architecture
How to begin to plan for transition

Please note: If you’re joining a class in person, you will need to bring your own laptop/tablet to view the electronic course materials, which will be provided to you in a digital format closer to the event.

Key Topics

Detailed Info

Capability-Based Planning
Engaging Stakeholders and Eliciting Concerns
Strategic Planning and Business Architecture
Strategic Mapping and Business Motivation Model (BMM)
Business Modelling
Value Mapping
Capability Mapping and Business Capability Model (BCM)
Introduction to Overlays/Views
Strategic Analyses - Pain Points, Maturity, Projects, Strategic
Concerns - View Point: Strategic x Maturity
Concerns - View Point: Future Maturity View
Concerns - View Point: Strategic x Maturity x Inflight Projects
Concerns - View Point: Current Maturity x Projects x Pain Points
Transition Planning and Roadmapping
Presenting the Strategy
Operationalising Strategy

Skills Gained

Key Topics

Target Audience

Prerequisites

Industry Association Recognition

Skills Gained

Attendees will learn how to successfully:

Create a Business Motivation Model to structure strategic thinking
Create a Business Model Canvas to conceptualise strategic business models
Create a Business Capability Model to conceptualise and structure a business
Use a Capability-based Planning approach to shape and operationalise strategy
Identify key Stakeholders and their concerns; determine how to find answers for those concerns
Summarise useful ways to engage with Stakeholders through a strategic planning process
Summarise Business Modelling techniques and artefacts
Use a Business Capability Model as an Anchor model for a variety of strategic analyses
Summarise a variety of strategic analyses of business capabilities
Create a simple Transition Plan to stage strategic execution
Present a strategic narrative to an executive audience using artefacts to illustrate strategic advice

Key Topics

Capability-Based Planning

What is Capability-Based Planning (CBP)?
What is Capability?
What challenges may be addressed using CBP?
What is an Anchor Model?

Engaging Stakeholders and Eliciting Concerns

Creating Stakeholders Maps
Principles for engaging and facilitating with Stakeholders

Strategic Planning and Business Architecture

What is Business Architecture and the relationship between Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture?
Three principles of Business Architecture
The value of Business Architecture
What parts of a business can be modelled by Business Architecture?
The relationship between Business Architecture and Strategy Planning and Projects
Strategy Mapping
Business Architecture Maps and how they can be used to define and operationalise strategy

Case Study Introduction

Strategy Mapping and Business Motivation Model (BMM)

What is a BMM?
Strategic concepts formalised in BMM

Business Modelling

What is a Business Model?
The value of business modelling
Modelling a business
What is a Strategic Business Model?
Elements of Business Model Canvas
Value-Discipline models

Value Mapping

Terms
Value Chains
The difference between Value Chains and Process
Steps for defining a value chain
Creating a value chain definition

Capability Mapping and Business Capability Model (BCM)

What is a BCM? Key elements
What is Capability?
The value of defining business capabilities and mapping a BCM
Capability Mapping – the process
Different approaches to Capability Mapping
Core and Supporting Capabilities
Guidelines for identifying and defining capabilities
Capability Catalogues

Introduction to Overlays/Views

Different overlays
Data points and insights

Strategic Analyses – Pain Points View

What is a Pain Points View?
How to analyse Pain Points

Strategic Analyses – Maturity View

What are Maturity Views?
Capability Maturity Models and how to measure
Determine the measure of the future/strategic target maturity of a list of capabilities
Step-gaps between maturity states

Strategic Analyses – Projects View

What is a Projects View?
How to analyse Project Impact on Capability Maturity

Strategic Analyses – Strategic View

What is a Strategic View?
How do you measure strategic importance
Using BMM/BCM to identify capabilities with strategic priority

Concerns – View Point: Strategic x Maturity

Concerns – View Point: Future Maturity View

Concerns – View Point: Strategic x Maturity x Inflight Projects

Concerns – View Point: Current Maturity x Projects x Pain Points

Transition Planning and Roadmapping

What is a transition plan?
Models used to determine which changes to execute
Looking for opportunities
Roadmaps and the concerns addressed

Presenting the Strategy

What makes an effective presentation?
Provide a presentation in a group using BMM

Operationalising Strategy

How maps are used to operationalise strategy

Target Audience

Business Architects
Department Heads
Strategic Roles
Technology Leaders
Business Technology Partners
Business Analysts
Enterprise Architects
Project, Programme and Portfolio Managers
Management Consultants
Solution and Domain Architects

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course; however knowledge of business fundamentals and TOGAF are an advantage.

Industry Association Recognition

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)

Credit Hours: 21 hours
Continuing Development Units (CDUs): 21 CDUs

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