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Business architecture is on its own evolutionary journey and its development is a continuous improvement journey.

Organizations become more complex, business architecture should play a critical role in designing and managing future businesses that become truly proactive and move up the organizational maturity. 

The quality of business architecture in alignment is to manage the business across the enterprise, bridge the gaps between “as is” and “to be” state of the organization, and improve business maturity from functioning to delight holistically.

Organizations leverages Business Architecture as a tool, representing the architecture of an organization in terms of either as it exists or as it is intended to be: During volatile or dynamic market sense and “VUCA” reality, the Business Architecture should define a very flexible blueprint but it is the management's responsibility to reorganize the corporate structure to make it equally flexible. Business architecture is an effective tool for enhancing cross-functional business coordination, developing knowledge & expertise, and enforcing business responsibilities.

Corporate leaders who can speak architectural dialect help to facilitate the enterprise dialogues between organizational decision makers, and thereby assist the organization in designing and reinventing itself in pursuit of new and more viable strategies.

Organizations leverage Business Architecture as a critical framework that should support the requirements of the business and make adjustments periodically: Business architecture is a useful tool to allow business management to find a balance between working on the business to deal with strategic issues while doing the business to achieve operational excellence. Business Architecture input can be used to direct resources and attention to strengthening business capabilities.

Business Architecture balances between managing complex issues today and predicting the uncertainty and volatility of tomorrow, enhancing corporate governance so that the organization’s mission, vision, and goals can be realized smoothly. It’s important to define a very flexible business blueprint, covering all areas of the business, with the abstract components, including such as capabilities, functions, roles, events, rules, data, etc, to support the requirement of business evolution.

Business Architecture can play an important role in helping managers analyze business choices in a holistic manner: Business Architecture helps to orchestrate the interrelationship between people and process, bridge the multitude of viewpoints in order to make effective decisions or figure out alternatives to solve problems. The key elements are that describe the general elements of the business architecture with ongoing deductive reasoning to apply the theory to the practical problem at hand.

Business Architecture is used as an effective tool for modernization, integration, automation, optimization, reducing risks, and improving rewards, of all scales of organizational change. It is an important tool for helping business management think about the interrelation between stability and adaptation, standard and creativity, sequence and iteration; and manage business holistically. It ensures that strategic efforts deliver to expectations and results are comparable, predictable and repeatable.

Business architecture is on its own evolutionary journey and its development is a continuous improvement journey. It seeks to look through a variety of complexity, and optimize it through abstraction and separation of concerns, connecting optimization points from project to organization, enhancing reusability and improving organizational effectiveness, efficiency and maturity.

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