Business Architect Certificate – Part 1: Understanding the Business

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Module 1: Introduction to Business Architecture

Objectives:

  • Articulate the business need and value of Business Architecture
  • Relate the role of Business Architecture to other organizational disciplines
  • Identify, at a high level, tools in the business architecture toolkit
  • Define nine blocks of a business model canvas

Module 2: Business Context and Environment

Objectives:

  • Understand the organization holistically & environment in which business architecture exists
  • Use tips and strategies for extracting
  • Leverage various methodologies to describe the external environment
  • Describe a company through the lens of business architecture and know how to define and generate a basic component of a business model canvas

Module 3: Know Your Customers

Objectives:

    • Use tips and strategies for extracting:
      • Customer segments
      • Value proposition
    • Create a deep understanding of your customer(s) using:
      • Jobs
      • Pains
      • Gains
    • Ensure your products & services meet/exceed your customers’ expectations

Module 4: Design Thinking

Objectives:

    • Create a deeper understanding of your customer(s) using:
      • Personas
      • Customer Journey Maps
      • Value Streams

Module 5: Applying in Real Life

Objectives:

  • Understand the approaches and considerations for launching a business architecture practice within an organization
  • Describe the skills, tactics, and techniques used by a business architect
  • Appraise organizational culture about maturity and change readiness
  • Identify common pitfalls to avoid
  • Apply approaches and considerations to real-life scenarios
  • Inventory skills with the BIZBOK Business Architect Skills Palette
  • Apply the BAMM to launching a business architecture practice

Module 6: Case Study

Objectives:

  • Apply your new skills to a case study
  • Practice using the tools to identify customer jobs, pains, and gains

 

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