Understanding of Business Capability Is the Key to the Architecture of Business Practice

An Architecture of Business concept defines and utilises a connotation of business capability to deliver, to do something in the continuously changing market, i.e., tomorrow and then after. The architecture of a successful corporation hooks into the future because current knowledge and skills can become obsolete by the EOD. The article defines the Capability benefits via business functionality and information; just data without business meaning is useless.

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.

Steps of Transition to an Organic Business

The first time published on MAY 27 – JUNE 8, 2018 Understanding the Subject: Part 1 Introduction In our previous articles “The Major Principles of the Organic Business Design” and “Results of Applying Principles of Organic Business Design” we discussed how an Organic Business organisation looks like from inside. This article aims to explain how to …

Results of Applying Principles of Organic Business Design

It demonstrates the results of applying Principles of Organic Business Design to the organisation of business. A few of Organic Business Organisation theory definition elements require a new understanding and reinterpretation. A real-world example for one of the retail giants is analysed.

Agile Business Capability

An enterprise behaviour is expressed via two types of business capabilities – managerial and actionable. The businesses need an additional mechanism of keeping them agile to the economic environment. Such a mechanism has to be self-adjusting to the market dynamics. This is not about new competitive capabilities and technologies (Web 3.0, Web 4.0…), but about a new model of the business capability itself that can naturally link with the market where the pace of external changes attains or even exceeds the pace of their adoption inside the company.

The Major Principles of the Organic Business Design

Dynamics of market changes as well as internal transformation in the organisations are quite high and accelerating. They have reached the degree where the traditional hierarchical business structure (mechanical model) steadily and speedily loses its efficiency and effectiveness. Though known for a long time, the organic business model proves that it is the most adequate for dynamic business transformations.

Extending Zachman Framework™ for new Market Realities

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