Practical Business Architecture / Building the Cohesive Enterprise

About this workshop

Old ways of planning, prioritisation, designing change and delivering value are increasingly challenged by fast marketplace changes and mind-boggling technology advances. That’s where Business Architecture comes in to provide much-needed guidance.

Quick and effective business change means that those conducting Business Architecture work must incorporate a number of business realities and perspectives. They also have to be confident they know about the tricky interconnections among them. For the business to be agile, we must be able to identify what work is impacted and design with deliberate integrity to avoid the risk of unintended consequences and assure cohesion. There is immense complexity in issues such as AI and other new software opportunities. We have to leverage these opportunities and to invest in better processes to improve new ways of working, avoid redundancy and make best use of scarce resources. With a sound architectural foundation, business-wide transformation, process digitalisation and continuous operational optimisation can be accomplished and change efforts can progress smoothly with few surprises.

This highly participative workshop will delve into the aspects of realistic Business Architecture, leaving the participant with the knowledge and skills required to make Business Architecture a repeatable and practical discipline that can flex with time.

Learnings

• Understand what a straightforward and useful Business Architecture looks like
• Understand how the business delivers value for its customers and other stakeholders (Business Model)
• Define how the work of the business can be cross-functionally organised through end-to-end process value streams (Operating Model)
• Connect investments in resources and capabilities back to the business strategy (Pain-Gain Resources Model)
• Learn to build process, information, and capabilities architectures and interconnect them through a balanced business performance scorecard
• Leverage innovation through critical enablers such as digital technologies and AI

Key tools & techniques

• Business Model
• Operating Model
• Pain-Gain Resources Model
• Balanced Business Performance Scorecard

Who is this for?

This workshop will be of benefit to professionals and managers of all types involved with planning and designing organisational change and building business capability to adapt and innovate continuously.

• Business Architects
• Business Analysts
• Strategic Planners
• Process Professionals
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Managers
• Change Agents
• Anyone preparing for Business Architecture certification

Team members attending together will have the opportunity to work together during the working sessions.

Special features

• This is a pragmatic working class with a case study and team workshops to practice the techniques
• Be able to socialise architectural concepts upward and reduce internal resistance to change
• Learn a method that scales for both small and large organisations
• Discover where AI can accelerate your efforts
• Work with Roger Burlton; the most experienced pragmatist in this field