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Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture

Richard Veryard

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This is the first installment of the Business Architecture Primer.

Six views of business architecture from Richard Veryard

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Richard Veryard

Richard is a business data architect based in London.

Read his architecture blog at http://rvsoapbox.blogspot.com/

Contents

Table of Contents

1.Preface

  1. 1.1About Business Architecture
  2. 1.2About this booklet
  3. 1.3Acknowledgements
  4. 1.4Recent Changes

2.Models and Viewpoints

  1. 2.1Everything has an architecture
  2. 2.2Scope, purpose and perspective
  3. 2.3On views and viewpoints
  4. 2.4Linking viewpoints
  5. 2.5How many viewpoints?
  6. 2.6Six Views of Business Architecture
  7. 2.7Structure and …

3.Building Blocks

  1. 3.1Towards a metamodel of business architecture …
  2. 3.2Related domains
  3. 3.3Pivotal Building Blocks

4.Motivation View

  1. 4.1What the business wants
  2. 4.2Performance map
  3. 4.3Structure of Performance
  4. 4.4For whom
  5. 4.5Nominal and defacto purpose
  6. 4.6Sources and Resources

5.Activity View

  1. 5.1Characteristics of Activities
  2. 5.2Building Blocks
  3. 5.3From Value Chains to Value Networks
  4. 5.4Two ways of viewing process
  5. 5.5Tempo
  6. 5.6Different Agendas
  7. 5.7Architectural Challenges
  8. 5.8Semi-structured processes
  9. 5.9Buffering
  10. 5.10Sources and Resources

6.Capability View

  1. 6.1Why model capabilities?
  2. 6.2What is a capability?
  3. 6.3How to identify capabilities?
  4. 6.4Articulating Capabilities
  5. 6.5How to understand capabilities
  6. 6.6Completeness check
  7. 6.7Sources and Resources

7.Knowledge View

  1. 7.1What the business knows - towards an architecture of concepts.
  2. 7.2Why are concepts important?
  3. 7.3Understanding concepts
  4. 7.4Abstraction
  5. 7.5Communication and interoperability
  6. 7.6Concepts change over time
  7. 7.7How the knowledge view changes over time
  8. 7.8Concepts can be deconstructed
  9. 7.9From Concepts to Data
  10. 7.10Pitfalls
  11. 7.11Knowledge and uncertainty
  12. 7.12Provenance
  13. 7.13Sources and Resources

8.Responsibility View

  1. 8.1RAEW
  2. 8.2Business relationship modelling
  3. 8.3Responsibilities in time and space
  4. 8.4Value Ladder
  5. 8.5Business as a Platform
  6. 8.6Self-Service
  7. 8.7Sovereignty
  8. 8.8Trust
  9. 8.9Sources and Resources

9.Cybernetic View

  1. 9.1Rules and Policies
  2. 9.2What is management?
  3. 9.3How the business thinks - the architecture of intelligence
  4. 9.4Closed-loop management
  5. 9.5Organizations as Brains
  6. 9.6Organizational Intelligence
  7. 9.7Viable Systems Model (VSM)
  8. 9.8Sources and Resources

10.Business Service

  1. 10.1Services Like Laundry
  2. 10.2Services Not All Like Laundry
  3. 10.3Latent Services
  4. 10.4Service-Oriented Ecosystem

11.Event Response View

  1. 11.1Towards the Event-Driven Business
  2. 11.2Atomic and Compound Events
  3. 11.3Event Sequence
  4. 11.4Time-Based Events and Batch Processes
  5. 11.5Non-Events
  6. 11.6Understanding the Enterprise as a Network of Events

12.Strategic Implications

  1. 12.1Using Viewpoints
  2. 12.2Articulating Viewpoints
  3. 12.3Perspective in Depth
  4. 12.4Service-Oriented Business Strategy
  5. 12.5Change Management

13.Notes and Resources

  1. 13.1General Glossary
  2. 13.2Further reading

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