Business architecture is the visualization of the organizational strategy, competences and operation layers and how they fit together to explore the macro-environment.
There are varying sub-architecture components such as information architecture, process architecture, design architecture, etc, that enable business management to associate with reality through inductive reasoning that justifies the abstractions, relationships, patterns, and principles to optimize business and improve organizational effectiveness and maturity.
Process architecture: The interactions of the business processes across multiple functions are what create the process architecture of an organization. It reflects the relationships of business processes in the context of the rest of the enterprise systems. Top business executives can leverage process architecture as an effective tool to facilitate process oriented dialogues, enhance management effectiveness. Business process-driven management or governance at the senior level is based on a high-level "architecture" of the business process -the component of business architecture, which captures the interrelationships between key business processes together with enabling support processes and their alignment with the strategies, goals, and policies for an organization
Process architecture: The interactions of the business processes across multiple functions are what create the process architecture of an organization. It reflects the relationships of business processes in the context of the rest of the enterprise systems. Top business executives can leverage process architecture as an effective tool to facilitate process oriented dialogues, enhance management effectiveness. Business process-driven management or governance at the senior level is based on a high-level "architecture" of the business process -the component of business architecture, which captures the interrelationships between key business processes together with enabling support processes and their alignment with the strategies, goals, and policies for an organization
Processes underpin business capabilities. Without coherent process management, communication gaps, decision bottlenecks, weak process links, outdated procedures, bureaucracies, are all detractors to stifle changes. By using process architecture as a navigation tool, the senior executives can make wise investments, sponsor process optimization initiatives, enhance strategy and process-capability linkages, process management and decision-making linkage, and idea process management.
Information architecture: Information is permeating into every perspective of human society right now. The organizational data environment is often fraught with inconsistency, redundancy, sometimes overlapping knowledge, all of which make information management as one of the most difficult, but critical management disciplines. Information is both the input and output of a process. A disruption in the information flows can seriously disrupt business processes and production. Information architecture, like the organization’s nervous system, orchestrates data, refine information into the knowledge insight in enabling business collaboration and optimization.
A fine-tuned information architecture streamlines information flow to make sure that the right information is in the right place at the right time and shared with the right persons for making the right decisions. It is a useful tool to visualize the strategic perspective of information management, covering management and accomplishment holistically via information management lenses. focusing on building information-support solutions in anticipating problems. Information architecture design, management activities and capability should provide real-time inputs, to explore intangible information assets, build competitive business advantage for the long term.
Either architecture or design is a thoughtful activity that extends over time. Design = forming human-made objects to be pleasing and preferred by humans. The human-centered design begins with deep empathy and an in-depth understanding of the needs and motivations of people from different perspectives. An effective design architecture establishes a set of design principles, clarifies processes, helps to fine-tune a design driven culture; enhance design relevant context, to elevate design through architectural thinking which is a way of embodying the quality of human thoughts and enchanting customers with elegant design.
Business architecture is the visualization of the organizational strategy, competences and operation layers and how they fit together to explore the macro-environment. It’s an effective tool to navigate critical business activities, facilitate enterprise knowledge related conversations, predict opportunities and risks ahead, estimate the magnitude of the impact of events which may occur in strategic/operational plans, and deal with the variety of complexity effectively.
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