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: The table to the right illustrates common disconnects in today’s business environment. 70% of all organizational initiatives fail, according to the Journal of Change Management. Furthermore, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton have gathered data that reveals that only 10% of organizations succeed in executing their own vision. To increase the success of corporate initiatives, Business Architects have gained in importance within their organization to properly align all senior stakeholders in executing the business vision. Business Architecture reveals how an organization is structured and can clearly demonstrate how elements such as capabilities, processes, strategy, objectives, organization and information all fit together. The relationships among these elements dictate and specify what the organization does, and what senior stakeholders need to do to meet the organization’s common goals. As shown in the Figure at the right of this paragraph, the business architecture discipline is involved in the strategic, marketing and operational planning of any new corporate initiative. Each business architecture initiative then needs to be delivered and executed by enterprise architects, program managers, portfolio managers, project managers, solutions architects, solutions software developers and of course business analysts according to plans coming from corporate executives. Why Is Business Architecture Valuable? Does your organization suffer from chronic disconnect between stakeholders?