Business Architecture Basics
Business Architecture Basics
Key themes, concepts, practices and guidance
About the Book
This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores how enterprise architecture and suchlike apply in the business context.
This book includes about 40 posts and 80 images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:
- *Business Architecture: On Architecture* - introduces core concepts for business-architectures.
- *Business Architecture: Organisation and Enterprise* - explores the relationships between organisation and enterprise.
- *Business Architecture: Method and Content* - presents example methods, checklists and practical challenges in business-architecture.
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Table of Contents
- BUSINESS-ARCHITECTURE: INTRODUCTION
- BUSINESS-ARCHITECTURE: ON ARCHITECTURE
- What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?
- Business architect and enterprise architect
- Business-architect or enterprise-architect?
- On business-architecture and enterprise-architecture
- On business-architecture and enterprise-architecture - more detail
- On business-architecture and enterprise-architecture - why this matters
- Business-architecture tools
- Business-architecture frameworks
- Business-architecture governance
- On the business of the business
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A checklist for business-transformations
- 1. Story and purpose
- 2. Scope and stakeholders
- 3. Context, scale and scaling
- 4. Full-cycle governance
- 5. Structural flaws in the context
- 6. Limits and constraints
- 7. Resistance to change
- Building-blocks for a viable business-architecture
- Marketing and the service-oriented enterprise
- Building effectiveness in a small business
- Architecting the balance between usefulness and profit
- Architecting the shadows
- Business is social, business as purpose
- Open Group on business-capabilities - a quick review
- Open Group TweetJam on business-architecture
- The is-ness of business
- BUSINESS-ARCHITECTURE: ORGANISATION AND ENTERPRISE
- On ‘shared-enterprise’
- Push or pull? - two views of enterprise
- Market as organisation, market as enterprise
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The whole experience
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
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Why whole-enterprise architecture matters
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
- BUSINESS-ARCHITECTURE: METHOD AND CONTEXT
- Governance is not an end in itself
- Professionalism, waivers and the hard questions
- Explore, expand, exploit
- The motivation dilemma
- Evidence-based architecture?
- Making continuous-improvement visible
- Why before who
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To change the structure, change the story
- Practical implications for enterprise-architecture
- The reverse-test
- Enterprise Canvas for government regulator
- Gamification and infinite-games
- Relational-assets are not ‘possessions’
- Employees as customers of HR
- Applications, work-instructions and business-continuity
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