Title: The business architect role is vital to business process transformation
Headings: The business architect role is vital to business process transformation
The business architect role is vital to business process transformation
If you have not yet heard the term "business architect", you soon will, write John Rymer and Alexander Peters of Forrester Research. Whether business architects report into the business or IT, this emerging role will help usher in organisations' transition from IT to business technology (BT).
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Content: The result of this approach will be an empty title and, ultimately, a failure to execute business transformation. A better way to organise this function is for the business architect to, firstly, report to the senior business process executive. The best reporting relationship is to the change agent - the chief process officer, senior executive for business process transformation, senior executive for continuous improvement, or a similar title. The business architect should also set the direction for operations leaders. To execute a transformation vision, the business architect executive must rely on the actions of business unit executives and managers, heads of profit and loss and cost centre units, and other business process owners. These leaders currently take direction from the CEO and COO; they will also receive strong guidance on their roles in business transformation from the change agent and business architect executive. Alexander Peters, PhD, is a principal analyst at Forrester Research. He will deliver a presentation on the role of the business architect in leading customer-centric transformation at Forrester's upcoming Business Process events in Boston, US (22-23 September), and in Hertfordshire, UK (30 November). John Rymer is vice-president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.