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 the 2000s the study and concept development of business architecture accelerated. By the end of the 2000s the first handbooks on business architecture were published, separate frameworks for business architecture were being developed, separate views and models for business architecture were further under construction, the business architect as a profession evolved, and an increasing number of business added business architecture to their agenda. By 2015 business architecture has evolved into a common practice. The business architecture body of knowledge has been developed and is updated multiple times each year, and the interest from the academic world and from top management is growing. Business architecture topics
Different views of an organization
In order to develop an integrated view of an enterprise, many different views of an organization are typically developed. Each "view" is typically a diagram that illustrates a way of understanding the enterprise by highlighting specific information about it. The key views of the enterprise that may be provided by business architecture address several aspects of the enterprise; they are summarized by the Object Management Group (2012) as follows: The Business Strategy view captures the tactical and strategic goals that drive an organization forward...
The Business Capabilities view describes the primary business functions of an enterprise and the pieces of the organization that perform those functions...
The Value Stream view defines the end-to-end set of activities that deliver value to external and internal stakeholders...
The Business Knowledge view establishes the shared semantics (e.g., customer, order, and supplier) within an organization and relationships between those semantics (e.g., customer name, order date, supplier name)...
The Organizational view captures the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units. In addition to the above views of the enterprise, the relationships that connect the aforementioned views form the foundation of the business architecture implementation.