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 An effective business architecture is not the geeky techie stuff, but a coherent view of how the organization fulfills its pursuit of creating and delivering value to customers and improving organizational management discipline.

With today’s business velocity and frequent digital disruptions, companies should leverage Business Architecture to orchestrate dynamic planning processes, pay continual attention to changes in the organization and its external environment, and how this affects the future of the organization. 

It’s important to connect relevant dots, leverage business architecture to facilitate communication and orchestrate change, improve business agility and maturity.

 

Architecture & understanding: A business architecture would look for leverage within the ecosystems, industries, and domain knowledge that defines it. Architecture is a way of thinking and embodies the quality of human thought. Use architecture as a body of knowledge and experience in gaining contextual understanding of the business, classifying the crucial elements and knowing their linkage, facilitate relevant communication without getting lost in translation, bring the systems understanding of business relationships, ecosystems, market dynamics, orchestrate the organizational interrelationship between people and process, enforce business change cohesively.

Architecture & business capability: Business Architecture is an effective tool for identifying gaps in business capabilities in the context of future need, understanding capability dependency, and building core competencies, strengthening them to ensure they are coherent, mutually reinforcing and aligned to implement business strategy. Enterprise Architects can work closely with the management team to look at complexity from a business impact perspective as well as from a solution perspective, define and develop modular, layered, and industrial components into loosely coupled dynamic business capabilities by modeling, integrating and optimizing, So the management has an insightful understanding of how to drive capabilities-enabled change and strategy management for developing organizational advantage.

 

Architecture & balance: Business Architecture provides a balanced view of “as is'' and “to be” state of the organization; it’s an effective tool to make certain tradeoffs for balancing growth and stability, innovation and standardization, process and flexibility, etc, to climb up the organizational maturity pyramid from functioning to firm to delight. The real value of business architecture is to identify gaps, assumptions, risks, etc., balance multifacet of facts and data, shape the prioritization of the opportunities, and keep the priorities in balance. Business architecture is an effective tool to broaden people’s perspective, allowing the management to see the chain of issues that perhaps need to be handled thoughtfully, so they can develop a healthy portfolio to ensure problems get solved radically and benefit from multifaceted value propositions.

As the digital world becomes hyperconnected, interdependent, and dynamic, the industrial silo and old boundary has been broken down, it’s no surprise that people will leverage a cross-disciplinary approach to solve complex problems and overcome common change challenges. An effective business architecture is not the geeky techie stuff, but a coherent view of how the organization fulfills its pursuit of creating and delivering value to customers and improving organizational management discipline.

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