Business Architecture Quick Start

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Business architecture is not just one more approach or technique; it is a shift in philosophy. In organizations where business architecture is embraced, the role of strategic visioning, issue analysis and transformation planning is shifted to the business. When the business takes ownership of the business vocabulary and accompanying views, the organization can break free of the silo-oriented shackles that curtail strategic planning, visioning, and funding, and obstruct initiative deployment.

Business Architecture Benefits

Business architecture allows business professionals to drive key initiatives based on a rich, comprehensive understanding of the business environment. And just as important, business architecture provides IT with a unique and powerful collaboration opportunity that does not exist without it. Building a business architecture for your organization will:

• Deliver transparency and clarity to enable issue analysis and resolution

• Provide business professionals with a common vocabulary that can be used to perform root cause analysis, establish priorities and articulate requirements to a wide variety of stakeholders

• Provide a holistic view of the business - one that extends into outsourcing, customer and other related stakeholder domains

• Make it possible for the business to take ownership of and drive transformation strategies from a business (not technology) perspective

• Enable laser-like investment focus on essential business capabilities, information requirements and value streams

Building Your Business Architecture

The steps to building a business architecture are clear:

• Establish goals, team and governance

• Define, socialize and refine capability map

• Define priority value streams

• Define information asset definitions

• Create organization, capability, information and value stream mapping

• Align and leverage business architecture within priority business initiatives

Rolling out this roadmap, however, is not easy to do without independent support. Cutter Consortium provides just that. Cutter's team of experts has developed and proven the Business Architecture Quick Start approach to assisting companies build their business architecture.

Cutter's Delivery Approach

The journey towards building the business architecture is as important as the destination. The true value of business architecture is only achieved when a company owns and builds the business architecture itself; therefore, the business architecture building exercise is done by your organization and not by Cutter. Cutter's role is to mentor, advise and facilitate your business architecture efforts. By taking ownership of the effort, your organization will more readily embrace the business architecture philosophy and use the resultant "living blueprint" to deliver value by enabling a wide range of cross-functional, cross-disciplinary business initiatives. Cutter's Business Architecture Quick Start team will:

• Provide you with clear direction through a 2-day Kickoff Workshop and working session

• Mentor a 2-4 week intensive Roadmap drafting exercise

• Mentor and provide advisory services for 8-12 weeks to move the business architecture forward

Plus, Cutter will help your team deliver:

• A foundational capability map for the business

• A view of core business Value Streams

• Definitions for key information assets tied to core/customer-facing capabilities

• An organization mapping approach

• Initial samples of a business visioning exercise using the business architecture

• Suggested steps for mapping business architecture to IT architecture

• Approach for developing a business-driven transformation roadmap

Business architecture enables organizations to deliver a wide range of tactical and strategic business scenarios. Cutter's Business Architecture Quick Start engagement gives you the support you need to take advantage of the opportunity. To schedule your Quick Start, or for more information, contact your Cutter Consortium Account Executive by phone at +1 781 648 8700 or email sales@cutter.com.