Architecture for Business
Organisations often find challenges in creating the link between business strategy and it’s effective execution; this is especially true during periods of rapid change. Creating an enterprise architecture gives the stakeholders a set of guiding principals and artifacts to see through the complexity of every day activities and co-ordinate projects and initiatives to ensure alignment of the business with the strategy.
Business architecture takes your business vision and strategy; defines your products; the key high level processes; and how your organisation needs to be be structured, motivated, monitored and measured.
Enterprise architecture gives you the plans, structures, governance, technology and capability road-maps to execute your business strategy.
Solution architecture aligns with the enterprise architecture and provides the models and frameworks describing how capabilities will be delivered through end to end processes and functions.
System architecture provides the plan and frameworks to manage and implement the solutions; describing the functions each person or technology will play in delivering the capability.
Essentially architecture allows a business to deliver optimised ROI and manage risk.