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).
Recognising the need for a business architect
Independent role for business architects
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Content: Many of the respondents to our survey also reported fairly low maturity levels on the governance and lifecycle management practices critical to business architecture. For example, with respect to governance, only 19% of respondents confirmed that their organisations have set up cross-functional leadership teams, where business architects typically operate (level 3). Moreover, when asked about end-to-end process management, 46% of respondents said that their corporate initiatives for process and information insights pursue different objectives and are executed without coordination (level 2). So where to begin? In our research, we found two established views of how organisations can charter and then fill the business architect position: A new organisation unifying process and project experts. The Business Architects Association (BAA) advocates placing a senior internal consultant with strong industry experience in the role of business architect, arguing that it is usually easier for businesspeople to learn technology than it is for technology experts to learn the business. A new career path for enterprise architects. Business architecture is also an emerging discipline and aspirational position within enterprise architecture (EA) practices and the teams that run them. Alignment within the organisation, bringing together business strategy and capabilities to drive results and/or transformation, is key to this approach.