Now that you have found out where your Business Architecture skills are at, how can you improve your skills?

Professional Development and Continuing Education Courses

If you found yourself lacking in an area, below are suggestions on how to increase your skill set through professional development training at the IPD in each of the four areas of business architecture, analytical skill, communication, and leadership.

Business Architecture Skills

Used to:

  • Define and understand the business problems
  • Identify and use architecture tools for different situations
  • Find opportunities to start using the tools

Communication Skills

Used to:

  • Facilitate meetings
  • Gather and share input
  • Provide updates and frame messaging
  • Train new tools and approaches

Analytical & Logical Reasoning Skills

Used to:

  • Facilitate meetings to help the business
  • Identify problems and use tools to solve
  • See connections & visualize solutions

Consultative Leadership Skills

Used to:

  • Plan and execute plans without authority
  • Identify and manage stakeholders
  • Manage change that comes with business architecture application
  • Influence sponsors and C-Suite

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions on opportunities to develop architecture skills or how to bring business architecture training to your organization.  612-659-7230


The Institute for Professional Development is proud to be a GUILD ACCREDITED TRAINING PARTNER™ (GATP®) of the Business Architecture Guild®