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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Business Architecture to understand the future state

According to Gartner "Enterprise Business Architecture is a part of the EA process that describes through a set of requirements, principles , and models the future state, the current state, and the guidance necessary to flexibly evolve and optimize business dimensions to achieve effective enterprise change".

By defining the rules, processes in a business architectural layer for the current state, an organization can understand where they are, and they can make certain strategic decisions to get to the future state. The goal of enterprise business architecture is to ensure that the changes and enhancements to business functions, process, financials, people and organizational structure are fully optimized in support of the business strategy (ref course notes).

This architectural layer translates "upstream" business vision and strategy by leveraging common requirements from the business context into contextual, conceptual, logical, and implementation level requirements.

The figure below illustrates that business functions and subfunctions may be supported by a collection of complete and partial processes.



Some of the critical influences are
1. Compliance
2. Ecosystem
3. Culture and Politics
4. Industry
5. Innovation
6. Behavior
7. Time













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