Title: What Is Business Architecture? - IRIS Business Architect
Headings: What Is Business Architecture?
What Is Business Architecture?
Why Is Business Architecture Valuable?
How Can Business Architecture Be Used?
When Is a Good Time to Engage in Business Architecture?
Where Can I Learn More About Business Architecture?
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Content: A common problem in today’s business comes from the upstream corporate vision that too often fails to get successfully translated into actionable objectives. Downstream, critical coordination fails amongst business units, as well as between the business and IT. This is why Business Architecture serves to properly align the organization within all its business units. Business Architecture reveals how an organization is structured and can clearly demonstrate how elements such as capabilities, processes, organization and information fit together. The IRIS Business Architect software makes it easy for Business Architects to deliver to all senior stakeholders a reusable set of assets – in a commonly understood language – that enables your company to quickly assess and make strategic or operational changes. With IRIS Business Architect, Business Architects can now ensure successful strategy translation by enabling the key stakeholders of their company to visualize the end-state of their company’s business strategies before the plan is implemented delivering the following: focused and aligned strategies for all its business units,
improved decision making by lowering risk,
increased operational efficiency,
capacity for growth and agility in your business and IT execution. How Can Business Architecture Be Used? Here are some of the events and challenges facing enterprises where Business Architects can have a significant impact in insuring that corporate strategies are implemented with cohesion everywhere in their business units: Drive legacy modernization
Investment analyses
New product offering or service rollout in the marketplace
Globalization
Business capacity outsourcing
Supplying chain streamlining
Divestiture
Regulatory compliance
Joint-venture development
Define a new market
Business unit restructuring
Reinvent what and who a company is
Integrate people, processes, capabilities, technology and culture during a merger and acquisition
Transform a large enterprise to a customer centric business model
Make a decision that significantly reshapes a government program
When Is a Good Time to Engage in Business Architecture?