Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1 day course)
Introduction
- The digital disruption, digital value creation and value delivery,
- Digital Business Models facing a competitive digital landscape,
- Becoming a Digital Data Ready Enterprise,
- The “Goal and Data Driven” structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- How to ensure Convergence and Alignment between these Frameworks and Architectures,
- Strengthening the Decision Making on a ” Data” basis,
- Refinement from the Enterprise Vision toward Business Processes,
- Steps to align IT to the evolutions of the business needs.
Gaining Agility : From the Business to the IT System capitalizing on Capabilities
- Preparing the Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support changes : The Goal and Data Driven Structures from the Business to the IT Systems,
- The Backbone of the Business Architecture structured by capabilities and value delivery functions,
- How to structure evolutions on the capabilities based on changing strategies,
- How to propagate changes from business requirements toward IT components (examples are given on the presentation case study).
Impact of the changes upon the Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, responsibilities of their participants and business objects in coherence with strategic changes,
- Integration of these modifications into components of the business process cartography.
Impacts on the IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support changes,
- How to identify Services and underlying System functions that have to be impacted by the changes,
- Integration of the evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided on the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Traceability from business strategies toward IT System structures in order to better govern them in face of change.
