BCS Business Architecture

The Business Architecture Domain

• What is Business Architecture?
• Strategic drivers for Business Architecture.
• Business Architecture principles.
• Strategy execution and Business Architecture.
• Relationship between Business Architecture and other architectures.
• Business change lifecycle.
• Business Architecture Service Framework.

Business Architecture frameworks

• Business Architecture views.
• Zachman’s architecture framework.
• TOGAF ADM (Architecture Development Method).
• The Business Architecture Guild framework.
• The AssistKD POPIT™ model.

Motivation view of Business Architecture and the organisational view

• Rationale for business motivation analysis.
• VMOST.
• OMG business motivation model.
• Stakeholder perspective analysis.
• The business model canvas.
• Service ecosystems.

Capability view of Business Architecture

• Business capabilities and business capability modelling.
• Levels of business capability.
• Defining capabilities.
• Elements of individual capabilities.
• Assessment of business capabilities.

Process/value view of Business Architecture

• Service thinking, value co-creation and value propositions.
• Value stream analysis.
• Value chain analysis.
• Business process analysis.
• Value network analysis.

Information view of Business Architecture

• The importance of the information view.
• Metadata, data and information.
• Ethics and information.
• Business information modelling.

People/competency view of Business Architecture

• Business culture.
• Function analysis.
• Roles, responsibilities and relationships.

Business Architecture and Business Change

• Business change lifecycle and Business Architecture.
• Organisational memory and the use of business knowledge.
• Business architecture and other change disciplines.

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