Business Strategy
A business architecture team is tasked with standardizing and improving the process of strategic planning across business units. They implement templates and help each business unit to develop strategy proposals at a reasonable level of quality. The team also orchestrates processes for strategy review and approvals.Capability Management
A business architecture team that owns capability management for an investment bank. They create a dashboard of business capabilities by product with a RAG status for capabilities such as risk management and compliance.Transformation
Implementation support for transforming a software company to a cloud services model. Deliveries include a GAP analysis by product.Improvement
A gap analysis of core operational processes with goals such as improving quality, reducing cost and identifying risks.Business-IT Alignment
Representing the business in determining how IT services can better serve business units.Benchmarking
Benchmarking capabilities, processes, products, services and systems against key competition or industry best practices.Distinctive Capabilities
Identification of distinctive capabilities using techniques such as market research and competitive analysis.| Overview: Business Architecture | ||
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Definition | The analysis and design of business models, strategies, structures, capabilities, processes, practices and metrics. | |
Scope | In practice, business architecture teams are typically focused on programs of strategic importance to a business such as transformation to a new business model. | |
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