The Business Context addresses the scope of the enterprise and determines who has an active interest in delivering the business directives.
The enterprises affected by the business directives may be spread across many teams and organizational units, both within and without the organization covered by the enterprise.
For instance, partners' suppliers, clients, and outsourcers all have enterprise architectures and business solutions that may require changes or re- architecting for the Board directive to be achieved.
The Business Context addresses the context and scoping of the new enterprise and corresponding requirements for enterprise architecture work.
The purpose of the Business Context is to create the business information products that will determine the enterprise scope.
The objectives of the Business Context are to:
Identify and scope the different types of enterprises affected by the business directive
Identify the major stakeholders impacted by the business directive and determine:
Their requirements and priorities from the enterprise
Their relationships with the enterprise and required working behaviors with each other
Identify the cultural implications and requirements for the new enterprise
Create Requirements for Work across the affected business areas, including:
The enterprise architecture
The business program and projects
New initiatives
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The process steps for the Business Context are:
Set context for enterprise architecture work:
Identify Board business directive to be supported and delivered
Identify enterprise architecture sponsors
Agree Stakeholder Management method
Budget planning
Scope the enterprise organizations impacted:
Identify Core Enterprise (Units)
Identify Soft Enterprise (Units)
Identify Extended Enterprise (Units)
Identify Community (Enterprises)
Identify Governance (Enterprises)
Complete scope of the enterprise
Determine Stakeholder Requirements for this enterprise architecture
Identify impact of change on business policy and strategy for each level of the enterprise
Determine enterprise principles, culture, and values
Define business Requests for Work for the organization:
Determine existing enterprise and business capability
Identify gaps in existing work areas
Define Requests for Change to existing business programs and projects:
Inform existing enterprise architecture and IT architecture work of Stakeholder Requirements
Request assessment of impact on their plans and work
Identify common areas of interest
Identify any critical differences and conflicts of interest
Produce Requests for Change to stakeholder activities
Scope Request for New Enterprise Architecture Work
Determine constraints on enterprise architecture work
Review and agree with sponsors and Board
Identify the enterprise gaps and scope of work to be done:
Complete Request for New Enterprise Architecture Work
Produce enterprise architecture Gap Analysis
Produce Enterprise Scoping Report
Identify Investment Requirements
Board Representative (see Board Representative)
Sponsors (see Sponsor)
Chief Architect (see Chief Architect)
Business Managers (see Business Manager)
Identified Stakeholders (see Stakeholder)
Other Resources (see Other Resources)
Program/Project Managers (see Program/Project Manager)
Business Vision
Board Policies
Board Directives
Partnership and Contract Agreements
Governance and Legal Frameworks
Board Strategies
Board Business Plans
Scenario Planning Outputs
Business Organization and Structure Level 1 (Board and Executive)
Budget for Scoping Project
IT Strategy
Enterprise Continuum (see Enterprise Continuum)
Business Drivers
Request for Architecture Work (see Request for Architecture Work)
Business Policies (see Business Policies)
Stakeholder Expectations and Requirements (see Stakeholder Expectations)
Business Goals and Objectives
Business Strategy (see Business Strategy)
Enterprise Principles and Values
Architecture Principles (see Architecture Principles)
Cultural Requirements (see Cultural Requirements)
Stakeholder Profiles (see Stakeholder Profiles)
Sponsor(s) for Work Areas (see Roles)
Enterprise Context Report
Enterprise Architecture Gap Analysis (see Gap Analysis)
Investment Requirements (see Investment Requirements)
Relationship Profiles (see Relationship Profiles)
Request for Change for existing Business Programs and Projects (see Request for Change)
IT Strategy Requirements (see IT Strategy Requirements)
Preliminary Organizational Change Readiness Assessment
Business Performance Target Metrics
Enterprise CSFs??
Closure on the Business Context will be when the key deliverables have been completed, agreed by all concerned including the Board, and the next domain has been activated.