Course Outline
Achieving Business and IT Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital Business Models within a competitive digital landscape,
- Transitioning to a Digital Data-Ready Enterprise,
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Strengthening decision-making processes on a "Data" basis,
- Refining enterprise vision into business processes,
- Steps to align IT with evolving business needs.
Enhancing Agility: From Business to IT System Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: The Goal and Data Driven Structures from Business to IT Systems,
- The Backbone of Business Architecture structured by capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring evolutions in capabilities based on changing strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated with case study examples).
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.
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,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided via the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to better govern them amidst change.
Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively through a case study to demonstrate how to ensure 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 developing solution drafts for your specific business case during the training.
Minor adjustments to content may be made depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.
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