5 benefits of an architected Target Operating Model

Every single organisation, whether a commercial, non-profit or government body, has an operating model. The operating model concept is not limited to organisations of, or above, certain size. An architected operating model – that is, a model that has been especially developed and fine-tuned for an organisation in line with its strategic priorities has wo distinguishing features.

BUSINESS CAPABILITIES: reflection of Wardley Diagrams at Corporate Business level

One of the major tasks in the Practice of the Architecture of Business (AoB) is an understanding of the corporate strategy by decomposing the strategic goals and objectives into fine-grained sub-tasks. In other words, this structure defines what the company should have done in order to reach its strategic goal. This method focuses on the business needs; in contrast, looking similarly, Wardley’s Value Chain Mapping focuses on the user need. In a dynamic market and several user bases, this becomes a business scalability problem.

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.

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.

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 …

Extending Zachman Framework™ for new Market Realities

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