Introduction to Business Architecture
- 4h 47m
- Chris Reynolds
- Cengage Course PTR
- 2010
Business Architecture is a disciplined approach to creating and maintaining business models that enhance enterprise accountabilities and improve decision-making. Business Architecture's value proposition, unlike other disciplines, is to increase organizational effectiveness by mapping and modeling the business to the organization's business vision and strategic goals. The book is an introduction to this burgeoning new field. It explains what Business Architecture is, what a good, sustainable one should include, and explains how to implement a business architecture practically within the reader's environment. Extensive examples and case studies are included to clarify points and demonstrate clearly to the reader how they too can begin to build business architecture within their organization.
About the Author
Chris Reynolds has spent the past 25 years observing and influencing businesses of different sizes in a vast array of industries. He has spent a significant amount of time showing employers and clients why they need to understand their business in the context of its environment as a means of understanding the change they need to undertake to become better. Over the past 15 years, Chris has spent a significant amount of time doing business analysis work and defining how business architecture and business analysis work together as disciplines. He has taught and coached others regarding this topic for the last seven years.
In this Book
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What Is Architecture?
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Why You Need Business Architecture
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The Goals View
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The Facades View
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The Communications View
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The Processes View
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The Business Entities View
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The Bottom-Up Approach
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The Top-Down Approach
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When Are We Done?
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Representational Languages for Business Architecture
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Frameworks
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Product-Driven Business Structure
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Service-Driven Business Structure
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Price-Driven Business Structure
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Business Architecture and Business Drivers
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Shifting Business Structure Models
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Acquisition
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Reengineering for Efficiency
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Planning
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Project Initiation
