Value
Not a river but produces a sequence of steps delivering increments of value towards a business outcome.
What is a Value Stream?
This architect helps to design and govern future changes to infrastructure networks for data and voice communications.
What is a Network Architect?
This is the term in Business Architecture that describes things that an enterprise DOES.
What is a Business Capability? (also Capability)
These types of architects ensure that cities are planned to provide efficient roadways, water access, sewers, power and land development areas.
What is a City Planner?
This type of analysis is foundational in eliciting and defining requirements for a business solution.
What is Business Analysis?
This represents the relative worth, utility, or importance of a concept.
What is value?
Architecture in this domain will be especially helpful to prepare and guide the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities in the Enterprise.
What is Data Architecture? (also Information Architecture)
This term in Business Architecture describes HOW something works within an Enterprise.
What is a Process?
When decisions for technology selections or acquisitions have major or long lasting impacts, this process ensures that best choices are made and helps to avoid future business and technology issues.
What is Governance? (also Architecture Governance)
This type of analysis helps to pin point the original cause of something that caused a problem affecting user or business.
What is root cause analysis?
Not a router or a switch but represents connected people in roles that produce value together.
What is a Value Network?
This domain is mostly concerned with implementing and enforcing standards to protect our technologies, users and business from threats and breaches.
What is Security Architecture? (also Cybersecurity)
This is the term we use for data that is useful within a business context.
What is information?
This process ensures that applications are fully catalogued and analyzed for opportunities to consolidate, rationalize, overhaul or retire based on value, cost, risk and redundancy.
What is Application Portfolio Management? (also APM, Application Portfolio Lifecycle Management)
This type of analysis is helpful in determining knock on affects on adjacent or downstream enterprise components.
What is Impact Analysis?
A narrative that is crafted to attract investment of resources, people and funding.
What is a Value Proposition?
This architecture domain is mostly concerned with Strategy and its connections to value, capabilities and processes that operationalize the Enterprise.
What is Business Architecture?
Something that describes the components of a business, including things like key activities, value proposition, customer segments, partners and customers.
What is a Business Model? (also Business Model Canvas)
Archimate, BPMN and UML are all examples of this.
What is a modeling notation? (also notation)
This type of analysis explores the pros and cons of several options, to make the best option, with acceptable compromises.
What is a Trade Off analysis?
A series of enterprise activities that delivers value to customers in the form of products and experiences.
What is a Value Chain?
This architecture domain is responsible for guiding the design, implementation and lifecycle management of host systems, networks, desktop and mobile connectivity.
What is Technology Architecture?
An artifact that describes the plan for business initiatives sequenced over a timeline, usually a year or more.
What is a Business Roadmap? (also roadmap)
TOGAF, Zachmann and ITIL are all examples of what this is.
What is a framework?
This analysis identifies and prioritizes possible faults and effects in a design.
What is a failure mode analysis?