Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Navigating digital disruption, including value creation and delivery mechanisms.
- Digital Business Models in the context of a competitive digital landscape.
- Transforming into a Data-Ready Digital Enterprise.
- Goal- and Data-Driven structures within the Business Motivation Model.
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.
- IT Reference Architectures.
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between various frameworks and architectures.
- Strengthening decision-making processes through data-centric approaches.
- Refining strategies from the Enterprise Vision level down to Business Processes.
- Steps for aligning IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Gaining Agility: Leveraging Capabilities to Bridge Business and IT Systems
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change through Goal- and Data-Driven Structures from the business to the IT layer.
- Establishing the Business Architecture backbone, organized by capabilities and value delivery functions.
- Structuring evolutionary changes to capabilities based on shifting strategies.
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via a presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts.
- Integrating these modifications into the components of business process cartography.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Goal- and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to facilitate change.
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions affected by these changes.
- Integrating evolutionary updates into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps involved in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology.
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance during periods of change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to demonstrate how to maintain high levels of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples. In on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case during the session.
Content may be subject to minor modifications depending on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
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Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.