Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture
Last updated on 2017-05-25
About the Book
This is the first installment of the Business Architecture Primer.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Preface
- About Business Architecture
- About this booklet
- Acknowledgements
- Recent Changes
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1. Models and Viewpoints
- 1.1 Everything has an architecture
- 1.2 Structure and …
- 1.3 Scope, purpose and perspective
- 1.4 On views and viewpoints
- 1.5 Linking viewpoints
- 1.6 How many viewpoints?
- 1.7 Six Views of Business Architecture
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2. Building Blocks
- 2.1 Towards a metamodel of business architecture …
- 2.2 Related domains
- 2.3 Pivotal Building Blocks
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3. Motivation View
- 3.1 What the business wants
- 3.2 Performance map
- 3.3 Structure of Performance
- 3.4 For whom
- 3.5 Nominal and defacto purpose
- 3.6 Sources and Resources
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4. Activity View
- 4.1 Characteristics of Activities
- 4.2 Building Blocks
- 4.3 From Value Chains to Value Networks
- 4.4 Two ways of viewing process
- 4.5 Tempo
- 4.6 Different Agendas
- 4.7 Architectural Challenges
- 4.8 Semi-structured processes
- 4.9 Buffering
- 4.10 Sources and Resources
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5. Capability View
- 5.1 Why model capabilities?
- 5.2 What is a capability?
- 5.3 How to identify capabilities?
- 5.4 Articulating Capabilities
- 5.5 How to understand capabilities
- 5.6 Differentiated Capability
- 5.7 Completeness check
- 5.8 Sources and Resources
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6. Knowledge View
- 6.1 What the business knows - towards an architecture of concepts.
- 6.2 Why are concepts important?
- 6.3 Understanding concepts
- 6.4 Abstraction
- 6.5 Communication and interoperability
- 6.6 Concepts change over time
- 6.7 How the knowledge view changes over time
- 6.8 Concepts can be deconstructed
- 6.9 From Concepts to Data
- 6.10 Pitfalls
- 6.11 Knowledge and uncertainty
- 6.12 Provenance
- 6.13 Sources and Resources
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7. Responsibility View
- 7.1 RAEW
- 7.2 Business relationship modelling
- 7.3 Responsibilities in time and space
- 7.4 Value Ladder
- 7.5 Business as a Platform
- 7.6 Self-Service
- 7.7 Sovereignty
- 7.8 Trust
- 7.9 Sources and Resources
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8. Cybernetic View
- 8.1 Rules and Policies
- 8.2 What is management?
- 8.3 How the business thinks - the architecture of intelligence
- 8.4 Closed-loop management
- 8.5 Organizations as Brains
- 8.6 Organizational Intelligence
- 8.7 Viable Systems Model (VSM)
- 8.8 Sources and Resources
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9. Business Service
- 9.1 Services Like Laundry
- 9.2 Services Not All Like Laundry
- 9.3 Latent Services
- 9.4 Service-Oriented Ecosystem
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10. Event Response View
- 10.1 Towards the Event-Driven Business
- 10.2 Atomic and Compound Events
- 10.3 Event Sequence
- 10.4 Time-Based Events and Batch Processes
- 10.5 Non-Events
- 10.6 Understanding the Enterprise as a Network of Events
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11. Strategic Implications
- 11.1 Using viewpoints
- 11.2 Articulating Viewpoints
- 11.3 Perspective in Depth
- 11.4 Service-Oriented Business Strategy
- 11.5 Change Management
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12. Notes and Resources
- 12.1 General Glossary
- 12.2 Further reading
- Notes
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