| Any successful business architecture practitioner learns to match experience with an understanding of formal concepts and the application of those concepts. This one-day Pre-Summit Business Architecture Preparatory workshop provides attendees with a basic understanding of important topics, along with guidance on how to further their knowledge and skills in relevant topic areas going forward. When attendees complete this workshop, they will have taken an important step to prepare themselves for the Certified Business Architect (CBA)® exam. Workshop modules are summarized below. |  | Topics include: I. Business Architecture: Fundamental Concepts
This module defines business architecture, outlines the value proposition, overviews the business ecosystem and walks attendees through the business architecture framework.
II. Basics of Capability, Value, Information and Organization Mapping
This important module walks attendees through core mapping disciplines including capability, value, information and organization mapping techniques. The session includes how to establish and apply these core business architecture domain mappings.
III. Extending the Perspective: Strategy, Initiatives, Stakeholders and Products
This module expands business architecture mapping skills into several key areas: strategy mapping, business model alignment, stakeholder mapping, initiative mapping and product mapping.
IV. Inter-disciplinary Alignment with Related Business Disciplines
This module walks attendees through interdisciplinary alignment concepts and focuses on leveraging business architecture to enable business performance management, business process management, case management and business requirements analysis.
V. Business Architecture Role Definition, Governance & Sponsorship
This module outlines the role of the business architect as well as guidance and approaches to establishing governance structures and appropriate levels of sponsorship.
VI. Business Architecture & IT Architecture Alignment
This module aligns business architecture with enterprise architecture frameworks, solution, application and data architecture, system development lifecycle, and business / IT transformation.
VII. Business Architecture Situation & Scenario Analysis
This module provides a baseline for performing business architecture situation and scenario analysis. While experience plays a big role in this aspect of business architecture, this session provides pointers on how to apply business architecture to a cross-section of scenarios.
VIII. Business Architecture Infrastructure Management
This module delivers an understanding of the essentials of managing a business architecture and includes an overview of the business architecture knowledgebase and tool tips and guidelines.
IX. Next Steps: Follow-on Steps to Certification Preparation
At the end of the day, workshop leaders will provide specific guidance on how to expand on the knowledge learned at the workshop. This includes getting started tips, an overview of the exam process, and guidance on where to find published materials, webinars and other information sources. | About the Instructors William Ulrich is President of TSG, Inc. and President of the Business Architecture Guild. He is an leading thought leader in the business architecture community, serving as an originating contributor to "A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge™" (BIZBOK® Guide), author of "Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation" MK Press (2011) and lead on the Guild's "Certified Business Architect (CBA)®" certification program. Mr. Ulrich serves in the role of advisor, mentor and workshop leader to corporations and government agencies across a number of industries.
Whynde Kuehn is a long-time business architecture practitioner, educator and thought leader. She has developed business architecture for some of the largest business transformations in the world and has extensive experience helping clients to build their own business architecture practices. She is a Co-Founder and Board Member of the Business Architecture Guild, Chair of the Guild Editorial Board and Co-Chair of the OCEG GRC Architect Group. She also applies her experience to help social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations start, scale and sustain successful businesses. Join us this coming June at this very popular event!  |
