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: As such, the profession of business architecture primarily focuses on the motivational, operational, and analysis frameworks that link these aspects of the enterprise together. The key characteristic of the business architecture is that it represents real world aspects of a business, along with how they interact. It is developed by an interdisciplinary practice area focused on defining and analyzing concerns of what business does, how it does it, how it is organized, and how it realizes value. It is used to design competitive structures and processes, leverage existing strengths, and identify potential investment opportunities that advance the business's objectives and drive innovation. Products of this business architecture efforts are used to develop plans, make business decisions and guide their implementations. In practice, business architecture effort is conducted on its own or as part of an enterprise architecture. While an enterprise architecture practice in the past had focused primarily on the technological aspects of change, the practice is quickly evolving to use a rigorous business architecture approach to address the organizational and motivational aspects of change as well. The alignment between business architecture and enterprise architecture is a natural architectural alignment of two related disciplines. Business architecture represents a business in the absence of any IT architecture while enterprise architecture provides an overarching framework for business and IT architecture. History of business architecture
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