Tag Archives: AoB

Architecture of Business and IT Enterprise Architecture: an architecture from the Business perspectives

While an Architecture of business organisation includes an Intrinsic Architecture and a Practice of Architecture, the Enterprise and even Business Archtiectures, defined by TOG, are predominantly a practice or implementation of an undefined architecture at the enterprise (rather than an IT) level. From the IT viewpoint, the enterprise is constituted by the corporate-wide technology; from the corporate-wide business viewpoint, technology and its architectural practice (EA) are just types of resources Business Capabilities may utilise to reach the strategic objectives of the business.

How BUSINESS CAPABILITY may be built

Describes a process of bulding Business Capabilities for the Architecture of Business organisation. The Business Capabilities are abilities of the business to deliver a certain result by a given time in a defined execution context. IT and EA are just resources for this delivery.

Putting value delivery chains at the heart of an organic Target Operating Model

Value delivery chains are quite simply the steps that need to be done by an organisation to deliver its intended proposition to each beneficiary group. Mapping the value delivery chain for any organisation – existing or envisioned, for- or not-for-profit, government or private – justifies the Target Operating Models. The latter are delivered via Business Capabilities in the Architecture of Business concept.

Optimising a Target Operating Model through an Architecture of Business

by Michael Poulin & Kirill Derevenski Abstract This paper describes a comprehensive – and revolutionary – approach to effective organisational adaptation to change in a dynamic market environment. Disruption is all around and even the most established players are no longer guaranteed relevance. Business and operating models are in constant change and in order to …

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Architecture of Business: Architectural Governance

Part 1. Architectural Governance: What and Why A concept of an Architecture of Business organisation (AoB) includes four fundamental artefacts, one of which is an Architectural Governance (AG). The Architecture of Business’s AG is defined as a set of principles, policies and procedures or activities, by which The AG is designed in compliance with existing …

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Extending Zachman Framework™ for new Market Realities

Architecture of Business/Enterprise requires extension of Zachman Framework/Ontology to add contextual and ‘by whom’ dimensions