This document provides guidance on business architecture concepts and perspectives including business models, value streams, capabilities, and processes. It discusses modeling these concepts using frameworks like ArchiMate and TOGAF. It also provides templates for defining capabilities, assessing their maturity levels, and mapping them to value streams. The overall document aims to help readers learn business architecture by providing examples and best practices.
2. Sources of Inspiration for Business Architecture
• www.strategyzer.com : business model canvas, value proposition canvas and Lean start-up canvas
• https://blog.leanstack.com/ Love the problem +Thoughts on continuous innovation
• https://www.businessarchitectureguild.org/ Business Architecture Guild
• https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap06.htmlTOGAF
• https://publications.opengroup.org/editors-picks/business-architecture
• https://www.jibility.com/book/
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5. Dissociate the
points of view
in Business
Architecture
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What the company does: CAPABILITY
Who does it: ORGANIZATION (business functions, roles &
actors)
How value is realized: VALUE STREAM
How the operational activities are carried out : PROCESS
What INFORMATION is required, produced?
What SYSTEMS are used?
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Business Model
Value Stream
Value Stage
Capability &
Capability Map
Roles & Actors
Business Process
Business Function
Data &
Information
IT Solutions &
Technology
Operationalize
(Realize)
Enable (Serve)
Consist of (Composition)
Part of (Aggregation)
Value proposition
Concepts
&
Perspectives
7. Concepts & Perspectives
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OutboundVision
Toward beneficiaries
Organisation Internal
Vision
Capabilities are at the junction between Outbound
and Internal visions.
Capabilities enable both perspectives
8. Business
Model
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Business Model
• A model describing the rationale for how an
organisation creates, delivers and captures
value.
TOGAF BusinessArchitecture
Level 1 StudyGuide, Page 21
9. Business Model Canvas
• The LeanCanvas
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Key Partners Key
Activities
Key
Resources
Value
Proposition
Customer
Relationship
s
Channels
Customer
Segments
Cost Structure Revenue Streams
10. Designing a Business Model
•Check that:
✓You can overcome main barriers to entry
✓You can create financial value (benefits) within an acceptable time
✓You do have a market
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12. Modeling a Business Model with ArchiMate
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• Your organization has decided to become a green electricity producer.
• Your organization has planned to install solar panels and solar tiles on the roofs of
all building.
13. Modeling a Business Model with ArchiMate
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14. Value Stream
Capability
Process
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Company activities
But seen through a different prism, a
different point of view.
15. Company activities -Views
Value stream
• Activities as seen by the value
recipient(s)
• Value produced by the company
for the beneficiaries
• A chain of activities that create
value for the beneficiary(ies)
• External viewpoint
Capability
• The ability that a company
possesses or acquires to achieve
a specific objective
• Internal viewpoint
• Activities required to achieve the
business model:WHAT andWHY
• Internally owned or purchased
from a supplier
▪ Existing capacity, already available
▪ New capacity required to
implement a new strategy
Process
• A chain of activities
transforming inputs into outputs
(information or material)
• Internal viewpoint
• Internal company activities,
often with an optimization
objective
• Operational model:WHO,WHAT,
HOW,WHEN,WHERE...
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16. Capability Definition
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•A capability is a core building block of an organization and is a
combination of physical things, data, processes and people.
Source : JIBILITY by Chris Benthien, Chuen Seet & the JibilityTeam
17. Define each CAPABILITY
• The CAPABILITY map is not enough. It is necessary to describe each CAPABILITY
Name Description
Roles, actors,
stakeholders
Goal
Process
Resources:
systems or
people
Information &
data
Value & Risk
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18. Capability Definition
• People
✓The competencies, skills, and workforce necessary to enable a talent base to execute the capability.
• Process
✓An efficient set of processes and activities designed to produce the desired outcome.
• Technology
✓Software applications, hardware infrastructure, and necessary tools to enable the capability.
• Governance
✓Compilation of clear roles and responsibilities, decision policies to facilitate integrations within and
across other capabilities, functions, and business partners.
• Data & Information
✓Conceptual representation of things that exist in the real world, used to model a business rather than
an IT system
✓Articulate, characterize and visually represent the information critical to the business.
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19. Capability Pattern With ArchiMate
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22. Capability Heat Mapping & Maturity measurment
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23. Capability Maturity Assessment
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CAPABILITY MATURITY
ASSESSMENT
• Capability definition
• Goals and objectives of the capability
• Current state capability assessment
• Capability needs to reach the desired target
state
• Metrics
VRINS FRAMEWORK
• VALUABLE - Capability helps raise revenues or
lower costs
• RARE - Capability is unique among organizations
• INIMITABLE - Capability cannot be copied
• NON SUBSTITUABLE - Other capabilities do not
provide the same functionality
• SUSTAINABLE - It can be scaled and repeated over
time with little loss
24. Assess Capability Criticality and Security
•Criticality
✓assesses the capability’s importance to the business and the link to
strategy.What operational expenditures are required?What is the
importance of the data used by the capability’s components?
•Security
✓assesses the vulnerability of the capability’s underlying components.
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26. Going further... withValue Streams
• Describe the value streams
• For each stage, identify the required capabilities, their level of maturity
and expected performance.
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27. Going further... withValue Streams
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