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 The ultimate goal of Business Architecture is to architect business in transition to the strategic state, take a holistic approach to drive change and reach the high level of business maturity.

In face of today’s business velocity and frequent digital disruptions, Business Architecture is a practical tool to explore macro-environment and navigate critical business activities to manage uncertainty and deal with complexity smoothly.

 Any architecture has to accommodate the fact that all organizations operate simultaneously as open and closed systems. It's an important tool for business executives to fine tune critical success factors, facilitate continuous digital dialogues, optimize process coherence and improve business agility.

 

The real value of business architecture is to keep the priorities in balance and that is within the office of executives: The real value of business architecture is about gaining contextual understanding of business knowledge, seeing the interconnectivity between parts and the whole, keeping the priorities in balance, highlighting changes with standardization, coherence, and visualization of business improvement initiatives. It provides you a holistic current state view of the business, envisions the future state of organization.

To bridge the gap between “as is” and “to-be,” business architecture is about finding the prioritization mechanism based on defining the risks, constraints, and trade-offs that a business faces. From a problem-solving perspective, the architecture provides a broader lens to see interconnectivity of business issues, understand the problem from every relevant perspective, helps to dig into the root causes, visualizing business improvement initiatives, and coming up with premium solutions.

An effective leader leverages business architecture as an effective tool to facilitate communications and blueprint the future of business: Architecture helps the business leaders to visualize and convey, enhance knowledge-based communication on the journey of transition from “as is” to “to be.” Not having the big picture architecture view creates a vulnerability to be second-guessed. It’s an effective communication tool at C-level to orchestrate dynamic planning processes, facilitate the varying business dialogues to motivate teams working in the right direction, and collaborate seamlessly for achieving higher than expected performance.

The digital dialogues are continuous, iterative, and multi-channel because change occurs on a continuum, to improve greater transparency, trust, and collaboration. Effective business architecture tools help to keep all executives at the same page by walking through discussions about strategy planning, governance, or business transformation, etc., optimize the management process and improve business effectiveness.

Business Architecture enables knowledge creation and management by dealing with the diversity of thoughts, categorizing or recategorizing knowledge appropriately: There are the inherent dangers of too much knowledge particularly because of the inconsistencies and incoherence in the body of knowledge management. It knows how to manage knowledge, tap their various resources and be inclusive and recognize merit. With today’s business velocity and frequent digital disruptions, an effective leader with an architect’s mindset is aware of interconnectivity between different business factors, identifying tradeoffs, and orchestrating a self-adaptive system orchestrate the interrelationship between people and process, and bridge the multitude of viewpoints.

To keep knowledge updated, an effective business architecture helps to connect ideas but also people, enabling them to improve decision effectiveness and problem solving competence. Forward-looking organizations leverage business architecture to orchestrate process and knowledge management for better future-state planning

Business Architecture enables the business leaders to to look deeper about the purpose of the business, pay continual attention to current changes in the organization and its external environment, as well as how this affects the future of the organization. The ultimate goal of Business Architecture is to architect business in transition to the strategic state, take a holistic approach to drive change and reach the high level of business maturity.

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