Concepts:
Business Architecture
We define business architecture as an organized set of elements with clear
relationships to one another, which together form a whole defined by its
functionality. The elements represent the organizational and behavioral
structure of a business [system], and show abstractions of the key processes and
structures of the business. [NDL97], [ERI00]
The intent of defining architecture is not to be complete, but to cover the
breadth of the organization. Similarly to how we define software architecture,
see Concepts: Software Architecture,
we can talk about architectural views of the business. Each of these views
contains an architecturally significant subset of what would be a complete
definition. A set of views could be:
- Business process view—includes and
outlines the key business processes of the business, those that are the
reason the business exist.
- Organization structure view—outlines the key roles and responsibilities
in the business, as well as their grouping.
- Culture view—expresses a vision of the organization’s culture, and
defines the mechanisms put in place to encourage that
culture.
- Human resource aspects view—discusses the mechanisms put in
place to maintain and develop the skill set of your staff.
- Domain view (optional)—for organizations that handle a complex set of
information, it is often useful to define key mechanisms and patterns to be
applied to those information structures. In simple cases, this may
already be clear from the organization structure view.
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