Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture
Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture
About the Book
This is the first installment of the Business Architecture Primer.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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1. Preface
- 1.1 About Business Architecture
- 1.2 About this booklet
- 1.3 Acknowledgements
- 1.4 Recent Changes
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2. Models and Viewpoints
- 2.1 Everything has an architecture
- 2.2 Scope, purpose and perspective
- 2.3 On views and viewpoints
- 2.4 Linking viewpoints
- 2.5 How many viewpoints?
- 2.6 Six Views of Business Architecture
- 2.7 Structure and …
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3. Building Blocks
- 3.1 Towards a metamodel of business architecture …
- 3.2 Related domains
- 3.3 Pivotal Building Blocks
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4. Motivation View
- 4.1 What the business wants
- 4.2 Performance map
- 4.3 Structure of Performance
- 4.4 For whom
- 4.5 Nominal and defacto purpose
- 4.6 Sources and Resources
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5. Activity View
- 5.1 Characteristics of Activities
- 5.2 Building Blocks
- 5.3 From Value Chains to Value Networks
- 5.4 Two ways of viewing process
- 5.5 Tempo
- 5.6 Different Agendas
- 5.7 Architectural Challenges
- 5.8 Semi-structured processes
- 5.9 Buffering
- 5.10 Sources and Resources
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6. Capability View
- 6.1 Why model capabilities?
- 6.2 What is a capability?
- 6.3 How to identify capabilities?
- 6.4 Articulating Capabilities
- 6.5 How to understand capabilities
- 6.6 Completeness check
- 6.7 Sources and Resources
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7. Knowledge View
- 7.1 What the business knows - towards an architecture of concepts.
- 7.2 Why are concepts important?
- 7.3 Understanding concepts
- 7.4 Abstraction
- 7.5 Communication and interoperability
- 7.6 Concepts change over time
- 7.7 How the knowledge view changes over time
- 7.8 Concepts can be deconstructed
- 7.9 From Concepts to Data
- 7.10 Pitfalls
- 7.11 Knowledge and uncertainty
- 7.12 Provenance
- 7.13 Sources and Resources
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8. Responsibility View
- 8.1 RAEW
- 8.2 Business relationship modelling
- 8.3 Responsibilities in time and space
- 8.4 Value Ladder
- 8.5 Business as a Platform
- 8.6 Self-Service
- 8.7 Sovereignty
- 8.8 Trust
- 8.9 Sources and Resources
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9. Cybernetic View
- 9.1 Rules and Policies
- 9.2 What is management?
- 9.3 How the business thinks - the architecture of intelligence
- 9.4 Closed-loop management
- 9.5 Organizations as Brains
- 9.6 Organizational Intelligence
- 9.7 Viable Systems Model (VSM)
- 9.8 Sources and Resources
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10. Business Service
- 10.1 Services Like Laundry
- 10.2 Services Not All Like Laundry
- 10.3 Latent Services
- 10.4 Service-Oriented Ecosystem
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11. Event Response View
- 11.1 Towards the Event-Driven Business
- 11.2 Atomic and Compound Events
- 11.3 Event Sequence
- 11.4 Time-Based Events and Batch Processes
- 11.5 Non-Events
- 11.6 Understanding the Enterprise as a Network of Events
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12. Strategic Implications
- 12.1 Using Viewpoints
- 12.2 Articulating Viewpoints
- 12.3 Perspective in Depth
- 12.4 Service-Oriented Business Strategy
- 12.5 Change Management
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13. Notes and Resources
- 13.1 General Glossary
- 13.2 Further reading
- Notes
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