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This chapter introduces concepts and visualisations for Business Architecture that help with understanding the business. Proven concepts like business capabilities and business objects are used as simple but powerful tools. These concepts cover a functional perspective on the business (business capabilities) together with a view on static entities (business objects). These are complemented by concepts to describe business motivation and business models.
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Business process modelling is for example explained in [1]. We will use the term business process map and business process model as synonyms throughout this book.
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Eliminating waste is one of the key principles in Lean process management (cf. [2]). It aims at optimising processes by eliminating any non-value-adding activity.
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Whittle and Myrick include some example E2E processes in a case study in their book Enterprise Business Architecture [3].
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We will discuss the topic of change management and resistance to change in Sect. 5.1.
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The term architecture here relates to the software architecture (i.e. the house) and not the EA (town planning).
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The textbook at hand is following a consistent naming convention for processes and capabilities:1. Process: verb + noun (example: Check order)2. Capability: noun + activity-noun (example: Order management).
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The same grouping is also common for business processes.
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Recreating the organisational chart or the application landscape are very similar mistakes. They are driven by something you already know instead of focussing on a clear representation of business functions.
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Some more use cases for capability-based application landscape planning are provided in [6, pp. 4608].
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We will mainly use business capabilities and business objects for EAM in subsequent chapters.
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We are not considering how those activities are performed but only recognise that they exist as business capability.
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Objectives need to be SMART which stands for: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
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Jung, J., Fraunholz, B. (2021). Understanding Business Architecture. In: Masterclass Enterprise Architecture Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78495-9_2
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