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Business ByDesign
Enterprise Business Architecture
(EBA)
represents the evolving
requirements, principles, and models for
the enterprise's business processes,
people and organizational structure.
It is a language and framework for
capturing what a business does
and
provides a
shared domain from which all strategic
initiatives are linked. |
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Enterprise
Business Architecture Defined
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To access a full definition of EBA from
Gartner and OMG, click on the icon... |
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Bridging the
Business/IT Gap
Sometimes the needs of
technology end up driving the
business, rather than the needs
of business driving the
technology. This occurs
primarily because many business
people often do not understand
technology, and technology
people frequently do not
understand business issues. It
is a rare person who understands
both... the Business
Architect and the
Functional Software Designer.
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Source:
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Business Architects are
responsible for facilitating
business processes, functions
and organization design, working
collaboratively with business
strategists, process owners and
subject matter experts within
the scope of the enterprise
architecture. However, the
business architect is ultimately
responsible for ensuring an
Enterprise Business Architecture
(EBA) is created and provides
value across the organization. |
Business Architects are
translators; they translate
technology for the
businesspeople and business for
the technology folks.
As with the information,
technology and solution
architects, the business
architect works with the
architecture team in translating
the business vision and strategy
into effective enterprise change
by creating, communicating and
improving the key principles and
models that describe the
enterprise's future state and
enable its evolution.
In
this way, business
architects keep
the business and IT
architectures in synch and work
to ensure that:
Business Architecture: Current State
Currently, most organizations
are focusing their enterprise business architecture
efforts on processes, as opposed to the broader
scope. This is because business processes are so
critical to the business, and because few
organizations have really considered the broader
people and organization architecture issues as they
relate to the Enterprise Business Architecture. As a
result, many business architects today serve a key
cross-discipline role which includes time focusing
on business requirements, process architecture,
business rules, and leveraging technology to enable
or alter business processes or practices.
Business ByDesign - Connecting Strategy To Execution
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Things done with a sense of planning,
purpose and method are done "by design"; |
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"By design" initiatives, by their
very nature, focus on connecting corporate
strategy to project execution; |
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Those organizations that best control and
exploit information and knowledge "by
design" will be the ones to pull forward
in terms of strategy and competitive
advantage; |
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Reduce risk and increase process-centric
initiative success by
contacting OnKue today. |
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