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Agility in Business and IT Systems During the Digital Era (1-day course)

Introduction

  • Navigating digital disruption, value creation, and value delivery.
  • Adapting digital business models to a competitive digital environment.
  • Transforming into a data-ready enterprise.
  • Understanding the "Goal and Data-Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model.
  • Exploring System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
  • Overview of IT Reference Architectures.
  • Strategies for ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures.
  • Enhancing decision-making processes through data-driven approaches.
  • Refining the transition from enterprise vision to business processes.
  • Steps to align IT systems with evolving business needs.

Achieving Agility: Bridging Business and IT System Capabilities

  • Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to accommodate change: Utilizing Goal and Data-Driven structures from business down to IT systems.
  • The core of business architecture, structured around capabilities and value delivery functions.
  • Methods for structuring capability evolution in response to shifting strategies.
  • Techniques for propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via 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 components of the business process map.

Implications for IT System Components

  • Leveraging Goal and Data-Driven structures of the system backbone to support change.
  • Identifying services and underlying system functions that require adjustment due to changes.
  • Incorporating evolutions into the service backbone (demonstrated through the same case study).

Conclusion

  • Key steps in developing an efficient Agile Business and System Architecture methodology.
  • Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance amidst change.

Note: These training and 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 using case study examples. In on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions tailored to your specific business cases during the workshops.

Minor adjustments to the content may occur depending on updates to these standards and evolving commercial strategies.

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DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are Architecture Frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.

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The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.

BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this site are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).

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