Enterprise architecture and business architecture
Business architecture opens up an entirely new level of business transparency that allows management teams to streamline planning, evaluate the value of funded initiatives against strategies, and craft more effective transformation roadmaps. This transparency is possible because business architecture blueprints stem from a common vocabulary, standardized framework, and shared knowledgebase.
As such, dashboard results align in practice with value streams, capabilities, information views, business objectives, key performance indicators, initiatives, and related business viewpoints. As a result, executives, managers, planning teams, analysts, and other stakeholders can view the business through a common lens — eliminating much of the confusion found across business units, strategy sessions, and initiatives.
Enterprise Architecture has emerged as a critical discipline to ensure that an enterprise and the organizations it comprises have an understanding of the significant elements from which it is made, from strategic goals through to the business and information technology components that assist in achieving those goals.
The discipline also allows enterprises to create architectures that will transition from where they are to where they need to be. Now more than ever in this age of digital disruption, when organizations can no longer rely on length of tenure in a field or being bigger than their competition as a safeguard against competitive forces, Enterprise Architecture as a discipline is vital.
