Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (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 on a data-driven basis;
- Refining the enterprise vision into business processes;
- Steps to align IT with evolving business needs.
Gaining Agility: From Business to IT System by Capitalising on Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: Goal and data-driven structures from the business layer to IT systems;
- The backbone of business architecture, structured by capabilities and value delivery functions;
- Structuring capability evolutions based on changing strategies;
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (examples provided via a presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects in coherence with strategic changes;
- Integrating these modifications into the components of the business process cartography.
Impacts on IT System Components
- The goal and data-driven structures of the system backbone to support changes;
- Identifying services and underlying system functions that require adjustment;
- 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;
- Traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to better govern them amid change.
Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to illustrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained using case study examples. In the case of on-site sessions, these may be followed by solution drafts tailored to your own business case during the sessions.
Minor adjustments may be made to the content depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of The Open Group and Zachman International.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defence, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures from 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).
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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 1300 € + VAT*
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