Business architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of: capabilities, end‐to‐end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders.
Business Architecture bridges strategy and execution, activates change.
Business Architecture vs Business Analysis
Business architecture scope is broader, macro level such as capabilities, where business analysis is more specific in scope, micro level focused on a specific process or group of processes.
Laura Brandenburg and Whynde Kuehn discuss the business architecture discipline, business architecture vs. business analysis, and how to become a business architect.
Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture
Business architecture focuses on the business strategy and capability of an organization.
Enterprise Architecture is broader in scope encompassing the whole enterprise including technical architecture, information architecture, and business architecture.
Digestible Business Architecture
Quick Bites - easily digested videos for key concepts
This landing-page aims to guide people towards resources that are useful to understanding and practicing business architecture in higher education.
Upkeep
The resources offered here were seeded in 2023 by members of the Itana Business Architecture Working Group. This landing-page is intended to be a living asset to the community, and will be updated as new and improved resources and guidance come to hand. Any and all suggestions for improvement are welcomed permanently.