The Itana Business Architecture Working Group (IBAWG) discusses the broad domain of Business Architecture in higher education with the intent to develop tools and methods for the IT organization to become a strategic partner with the business. The goal is to bring together practitioners and provide a forum for sharing resources, ideas, experience and, inspiration in this emerging domain of knowledge.
Interested in participating? Please contact Piet Niederhausen at pietn@uw.edu
Summer 2022
Interested in participating? Please contact Piet Niederhausen at pietn@uw.edu
Next Conference Call
We're paused for the Summer and will return to regular meetings starting on:
Friday, August 26, 2022 at 1pm Pacific, 2 PM Mountain, 3 PM Central, 4 PM Eastern, and the following day 8 AM NZST
To join a meeting: IBAWG Zoom Information
2021-2022 IBAWG Program
All meeting materials can be found in this folder. Want to propose or lead a session? Contact Piet Niederhausen at pietn@uw.edu
Autumn 2021 Call Program
| Date | Session | Notes |
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| September 24 | What's Your Business Architecture Vision? As you think about applying business architecture at your institution, what challenges do you hope to address? What outcomes are you working toward?
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| October 8 | How Does Business Architecture Happen Today? Most of us don't work in institutions with enterprise-wide business architecture practices. So how does business architecture happen today? How do enterprise goals and strategies get set, and decisions made about investments and initiatives? Who defines what the business of the institution is, and how is its "architecture" described?
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| October 22 | Unconference
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| November 5 | Organizational Readiness for Business Architecture Most of us are just getting started with business architecture in our organizations. What should be in place for an enterprise, project, or team to benefit from business architecture? What about your current organization affects your ability to do what with business architecture?
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| November 19 | Applying the Higher Education Reference Model Tony Turrin will share his work applying a capability model while exploring and building shared language at the University of North Florida. He'll illustrate how to connect a stable capability framework with elements in the business within each capability.
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| December 3 | Unconference
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| December 17 | CANCELED |
Winter 2022 Call Program
| Date | Session | Notes |
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| January 14 | Business Architecture and People What’s involved in getting people and teams to the point of working together on, and benefiting from, a business architecture analysis? What else do business architects need to do, such as network, facilitate, and influence?
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| January 28 | Unconference
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| February 11 | Why Business Architecture? What’s the purpose of doing business architecture in your organization? What are alternative or related practices, and what need does business architecture in particular fulfill? What outcomes are you looking for, and what do you need people to know about it?
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| February 25 | Unconference
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| March 11 | Starting Small With Business Architecture What are smaller scale ways to apply business architecture, not for the whole enterprise? Where have business architects gotten traction in individual projects or teams?
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| March 25 | Unconference
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Spring 2022 Call Program
| Date | Session | Notes |
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| April 8 | Architecting Alignment of IT and Business Outcomes Often this is where business architecture gets started. How has business architecture been used to build alignment between IT and business stakeholders?
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| April 22 | *** No meeting *** | |
| May 6 | Unconference
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| May 20 | Strategic Change and Business Architecture How should business architecture support major change efforts such as Digital Transformation (DX) or other institutional initiatives or strategies?
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| June 3 | Unconference
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Summer 2022
- No regular calls planned
- Steering Group will meet to plan the next call cycle
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