The 'Business Architecture Best Practices: Practical Methods to Enable Business Change' workshop is designed to benefit a wide range of professionals involved in planning, designing, and managing organizational change. The course is ideal for anyone who aims to build business capabilities to adapt and innovate continuously. Specific roles that may find this course especially beneficial include:

• Business Architects: The course focuses on developing the essential skills and knowledge needed to adapt business models, design operational processes, and drive change effectively.
• Business Analysts: Analysts will learn how to harness business architecture principles to better understand the interconnections between business elements and enable more efficient business changes.
• Process Architects and Analysts: These professionals will benefit from learning how to design and implement more efficient business processes based on best practices in business architecture.
• Enterprise Architects: This course can help Enterprise Architects understand the broader business context of their work and how to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Change Agents: Those tasked with driving change within an organization can learn how to leverage business architecture to facilitate smoother transitions and achieve business goals.
• Strategic Planners: Understanding business architecture can help strategic planners create more effective, long-term plans that take into account the full scope of business operations and capabilities.
• Business Managers: Managers at all levels can gain insights on how to better understand and optimize their business operations through the principles of business architecture.
• Anyone preparing for Business Architecture certification: This course provides comprehensive coverage of the key concepts and practices that are likely to be included in most Business Architecture certification programs.

In the face of rapid change and digital transformation, understanding and applying business architecture principles has never been more crucial. The 'Business Architecture Best Practices: Practical Methods to Enable Business Change' course offers a comprehensive study of the key elements of business architecture, enabling you to design with agility, avoid redundancy, and effectively manage change. Whether you are a business analyst, process architect, strategic planner, or business manager, this course will equip you with a strong foundation to innovate and adapt continuously.

This participative workshop is based on the Business Architecture Guild’s BIZBOK principles and other established methods. It combines theoretical instruction with a practical case study and workshops to make Business Architecture disciplined, repeatable, yet practical. Led by industry veteran Roger Burlton, you'll gain the knowledge and skills required to implement the concepts and practices of the BIZBOK, understand how the business delivers value, define business organization and operation, and align business resources.

Unless otherwise specified, this course does not include an exam

Upon completion of the course, you'll receive a certificate of completion from IRM UK, demonstrating your new competencies and knowledge in Business Architecture.

1. Why Business Architecture?

• Enable Transformation, Disruption, and need for Innovation
• Requirement for Business Agility
• Business Architecture and Related Disciplines
• Workshop: What is your Architecture maturity and readiness?

2. Architecture Scoping and Value Chain Identification

• Workshop: What Value Chains do you have and what’s in scope for Business Architecture?

3. Business Strategy Understanding

• Workshop: Who are your stakeholders and what is of value to them?

4. Framing the Strategy for Business Architecture Consumption

• Workshop: What are the Critical Capabilities and Requirements for the Business Architecture?

5. Business Object/Concept Modeling

• Workshop: What is your Business Object/Concept Model?

6. Business Capabilities

• Workshop: What are your Business Capabilities?

7. Business Process Architecture

• Workshop: What are your Value Streams and End-to-End Processes?

8. Alignment to Decisions and Business Rules

• Workshop: Articulating critical Decisions and Business Rules?

9. Business Performance Models

• Workshop: What is your Performance Scorecard?

10. Alignment of Business Architecture with IT Enablement

• Services, Microservices, and APIs
• BPMS (process engines)
• BRMS (rules engines)
• Business Activity Monitoring and Analytics (measurement)
• ERP

11. Alignment with Human Competencies

• Competence
• Motivation, Behavior, and Culture
• Structural and Cultural Maturity

12. Prioritization of Change: Heat Maps

• Workshop: What are your Business Process and Capability Priorities?

13. Leveraging the Architecture into a Business Change Portfolio

• Workshop: Which Processes and Capabilities are in scope for projects.

14. Sustaining the Architecture through Governance

• Governance Maturity Checklist
• Architecture Sustainment – CoE Support

15. Summary

• Lessons Learned