Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital Business Models in the context of a competitive digital landscape,
- Transitioning to a Data-Ready Enterprise,
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment across these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making processes based on data insights,
- Refining the Enterprise Vision down to specific Business Processes,
- Steps to align IT systems with the evolving needs of the business.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change: Goal and Data-Driven Structures from Business to IT,
- The core structure of Business Architecture organized by capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolution in response to strategic shifts,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via the presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into business process mapping components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone supporting change,
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating these evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT System structures for better governance amid change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain robust traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained through case study examples; for on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business context during the session.
Content may undergo minor adjustments to reflect the latest evolutions in standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are Architecture Frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures held by the Open Group.
The Business Model and Value Model Canvases are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
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Emmanuel - Urssaf Rhone-Alpes
Course - Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age
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Matthieu - Urssaf Rhone-Alpes
Course - Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age
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