Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (One-Day Instructional Session)
Introduction
- The impact of digital disruption on value creation and delivery mechanisms,
- Adapting digital business models to a highly competitive digital environment,
- Establishing an enterprise prepared for digital data integration,
- The goal and data-driven structures inherent in the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering principles and Enterprise Architecture frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures standards,
- Strategies to ensure convergence and alignment among these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes by leveraging data-driven insights,
- Refining the enterprise vision to define specific business processes,
- Procedures to align IT infrastructure with evolving business requirements.
Achieving Agility: Linking Business Functions to IT Systems Through Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to accommodate change through goal and data-driven structures,
- Structuring the business architecture backbone around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Methods for adapting capabilities in response to strategic shifts,
- Processes for propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via a case study).
Implications for Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into business process mapping components.
Implications for IT System Components
- Applying goal and data-driven structures to the system backbone to support adaptability,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions affected by changes,
- Integrating these evolutions into the service backbone (demonstrated using the same case study).
Conclusion
- Key steps in an efficient agile methodology for business and system architecture development,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to enhance governance during periods of change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate best practices for maintaining robust traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained through case study examples. For on-site sessions, participants may draft solutions applicable to their own operational context during the session.
Content may be subject to minor revisions based on updates to industry standards or commercial strategies.
The Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks established by the U.S. Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures registered 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)
Equipped with examples
Bobby Darmawan - Indonesia Financial Group
Course - Digital Insurance Business (Insurtech)
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
