Leveraging Business Architecture

Leveraging Business Architecture

How can you assure that management direction which is based on the external landscape (and the ecosystem) leads to satisfying executional results? Will the organization achieve the desired improvement in performance? Will you get more than just a pile of documentation from analysts with no conclusions or recommendations? How will the current emerging business architecture discipline help the situation?

Managers know that the relationships between various organization things (components) are critical to business’ performance. Management directs, allocates, and structures these components in ways to improve the organization’s execution and performance. Knowing these structured relationships between components (the ‘architecture’) helps drive business transformation, excellence and success today.

The End to End Architecture (E2EA) approach leverages both business architecture and enterprise architecture by providing a systematic roadmap to successful execution of organizational initiatives and projects. A formal approach assures that properly applied analytic techniques achieve a predictable and appropriate outcome.

Management needs a firm understanding of how external influencing factors impact the organization. The set of factors that influence the organization define its ‘Ecosystem’. Today, management has access to a number of emerging architecture disciplines and tools that support strategic goals. The increasing trend towards the digital enterprise, executable strategic direction and business architecture are now a significant part of business management and planning. Some examples of architecture documentation and analytics tools used today are provided through demonstration to solidify your understanding of such implementations

This is a Knowledge Consultants, Inc. certified course and is part of the KCI BPM curriculum.

Certification Requirements

All course attendees must meet minimum testing standards including in-class exercises to receive certification (75% is the passing grade).

By attending this highly beneficial course, delegates will:

• Manage business change and impact analysis through a well-defined architecture approach with analytics.
• Create architecture outputs that have value and are not just diagrams.
• Explain the value, steps and purpose of the end-to-end architecture approach.
• Identify documentation and analytic needs and techniques of each perspective.
• Apply efficient gathering techniques for architecture material to assure success of each perspective
• Explain how architecture is used in consolidation, mergers, acquisitions and competitive intelligence in assessing return on investment in architecture
• Understand how architecture enables successful business transformation
• Describe why architectures provides a way to assess and measure risk in business transformation and improvement
• Seek out change and improvement opportunities through application of analytics to architecture component.
• Demonstrate how to create architecture perspectives consistent with business needs
• Explain business enablers (such as for processes namely skills, IT, policies and procedures) and why they are important to business performance.

Who should attend

• Business Architects
• Business Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business & Strategic Planners
• Process Analysts
• Marketing Professionals
• Financial Analysts
• Quality Managers
• IT Specialists
• IT Managers
• Competitive Intelligence Analysts
• Solution Architects

Delegates should have at least one year of business analysis experience, an MBA or one or more courses in business management.

Meet your expert course trainer: Frank Kowalkowski

Frank Kowalkowski is President of Knowledge Consultants, Inc., a firm focusing on business performance, business/IT architecture and business analytical techniques. He has over 30 years of management and consulting experience in a wide variety of industries. He has been involved with many projects including business analysis, process management, business performance measurement, business and competitive intelligence and knowledge management.

In addition to being a keynote speaker at international conferences as well as a conference chair, he has written numerous papers and spoken at conferences on a variety of subjects. He conducts frequent seminars nationally and internationally on a variety of business management and information technology topics. He is co author of a quarterly column on architecture for the website TDAN.

He is the author of a 1996 book on Enterprise Analysis (Prentice – Hall, ISBN 0-13-282-3365) and numerous papers. Frank is currently working on a BPM book titled ‘The 5 Stage BPM Approach’ for managers and professionals and a new book titled ‘End to End Architecture (E2EA)’ scheduled for February 2016. His most recent publication is a featured chapter in the business architecture book titled ‘Business and Dynamic Change’ June, 2015 and a chapter on semantic process analytics in the book Passports to Success in BPM published in 2014 both are available on Amazon.

Knowledge Consultants. Inc. (KCI)

Knowledge Consultants, Inc. is a professional services firm founded in 1984. KCI provides consulting and professional education services. With over 50 courses taught worldwide, KCI provides the opportunity to develop core strengths in the following certification areas:

• Process Management
• IT Management
• Business Performance Management
• Business Analysis
• Analytical Techniques for Business
• Business and IT Architecture

KCI has expanded its training and consulting efforts internationally into Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. KCI has an outstanding list of current and past clients including many of the Fortune’s 100 companies.

Consulting focuses on the key areas of Business Performance Management, Process Management, Business and IT Architecture, Business Analysis, Using Analytic Techniques for Performance Improvement and IT Management.

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