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Engaging Real Business People in Real Business Architecture
We often hear I.T. Architects complain that the business strategy is not clear and that they cannot get business owners and executives to participate in the EA activity, thus leaving the whole ship, in a sense, “rudderless”. When we look at what is discussed with the business people as “business architecture” we are not too surprised. EA in most organizations (and in TOGAF) has “grown upwards” from IT towards the business process management space. Few organizations are doing real Business Architecture.
This talk is part evangelism for relevant and comprehensive Business Architecture as well as drawing upon our experience of doing this with organizations in telecommunications, health care, banking, assurance, goverment and software industries over many years.
We will cover the scope of business architecture, a meta model for business architecture, how to deal with scenarios and “what ifs”, ideas on how to engage the real owners and executives of the business and illustrate the ideas with examples from experience. We hope to provoke some discussion on how these ideas could be incorporated into TOGAF.
Audience:-
- Implementors of EA methods
- business architects
- business executives
Key takeaways:-
- A new perception of the scope of and potential for real Business Architecture
- A meta model to assist in understanding, information gathering and organization of models
- Ideas on how to constructively engage business owners and executives and get real direction flowing into other architecture effort
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