Title: Business architecture - Wikipedia
Headings: Business architecture
Business architecture
Contents
Overview
History of business architecture
Business architecture topics
Different views of an organization
Business strategy
Approaches for business architecture
The Business Architecture Guild
The Business Architecture Association
The ASATE Group Business Capability Framework
Enterprise architecture frameworks encompassing business architecture approaches
Zachman Framework
The Object Management Group
The Open Group
Industry reference models
Other industry models
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: In practice, business architecture effort is conducted on its own or as part of an enterprise architecture. While an enterprise architecture practice in the past had focused primarily on the technological aspects of change, the practice is quickly evolving to use a rigorous business architecture approach to address the organizational and motivational aspects of change as well. The alignment between business architecture and enterprise architecture is a natural architectural alignment of two related disciplines. Business architecture represents a business in the absence of any IT architecture while enterprise architecture provides an overarching framework for business and IT architecture. History of business architecture
Main article: History of business architecture
The history of business architecture has its origins in the 1980s. In the next decades business architecture has developed into a discipline of "cross-organizational design of the business as a whole" close related to enterprise architecture. The concept of business architecture has been proposed as a blueprint of the enterprise, as business strategy, and also as the representation of business design. The concept of business architecture has evolved over the years. It was introduced in the 1980s as architectural domains and as activity of business design.