{"id":461,"date":"2009-09-09T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biz4ge.net\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2021-03-15T14:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:25:29","slug":"business-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/business-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this is it, we’ve arrived.\u00a0 As important as the content of the rest of this website is, this is to us the introduction to the single most important topic on these pages…….business architecture.\u00a0 Ironically its potential contribution to success is so large and its widespread use so relatively limited……but we hope to help change all that!<\/p>\n

As is the case for business transformation, business architecture can at first appear complex and confusing, but it too has a basic pattern and structure that in overview looks something like the figure below (click on it to see an enlarged version in a new window).<\/p>\n

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As you can see, business architecture fits under the Assess stage of the business transformation roadmap.\u00a0 Each of the major elements or blueprint ‘layers’ in a business architecture is constructed in the routemap sequence outlined to the left.\u00a0As for business transformation, there are interactions between each of the layers, but unlike business transformation there is much more iteration involved between and across each blueprint layer.<\/p>\n

This is so much so that, especially in larger organisations, cross-functional teams will often be working on different parts of the architecture routemap in parallel.\u00a0 Therefore the way to read the routemap is not in a strict start-to-finish relationship way, but more as being about which routemap steps should be begun before others….and with the earlier steps also ideally normally completing before later steps complete.<\/p>\n

Often what you learn from developing the model in a subsequent layer will cause you to want to go back and adjust work on ‘previous’ layers to be consistent.\u00a0 This is not only normal, and often necessary, but so long as it is not allowed to go too far and lead to chaos or analysis paralysis, it is a healthy sign of discovery and learning!<\/p>\n

There are ten key model blueprint layers\"Biz4ge<\/a> displayed on the Biz4ge business architecture routemap above, these are depicted in the business architecture framework diagram to the right (click on it to see an enlarged version in a new window).<\/p>\n

Additionally they are also detailed in list form below (follow the hyperlinks to learn more about each):<\/p>\n