Biz arch professional development
What has helped you develop your business architecture competencies?
- Reading Corporate Executive Board (CEB) materials - now part of Gartner
- Business Architecture Guild - readings, webinars, study guides
- Related fields
- Business process modeling/management
- Business analysis
- IT service management - customer centric, value chains, service oriented
- Programs & training sources
- Books
- Experimentation
- Try out methods; don’t push Biz Arch as such
- Getting to that view that people find useful and that create energy to make change
- Participation
- Join working groups such as CAUDIT, etc., to learn from how they work
What professional development opportunities are you considering or would like to find?
- Evolution of business architecture as a practice
- What does “business” mean - not just processes, but functions such as sales, service, etc.
- Who the “customer” is - enabling employees who provide services
- How to apply industry generalizations in specific orgs
- Have a point of view about where the org should be headed, even if it’s many years out
- People, process and then technology
- Strategic framing -> change leadership -> business architecture
- Bring people along on a new path of analysis and change; frame a new way
Future topics:
- Architecting CRM at Cornell (Becky Joffrey)