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Itana Business Architecture Working Group (IBAWG) Share Out

Exploring business architecture methods that help

Higher-Education Enterprise and IT Architects

March 7, 2025�

Brought to you by the crowdsourcing efforts of the IBAWG Participants

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Previous Share Outs

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  • 2018�
  • 2020�
  • 2025

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Agenda

  1. The IBAWG Elevator Pitch
  2. About the IBAWG
  3. What the IBAWG Cares About
  4. What the IBAWG Has Been Doing
  5. What the IBAWG Will Do Next
  6. What the IBAWG Is Grateful For
  7. IBAWG Community Feedback

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A. The IBAWG Elevator Pitch

Provide business architecture methods and resources to help higher-education organizations:

Facilitate strategy implementation by providing a blueprint of the organization to withstand leadership turnover:

    • Support alignment of services with business functions
    • Reduce risk from projects and other change initiatives
    • Help functional units understand their requirements (motivations, priorities, needs, alignment)

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A. The IBAWG Elevator Pitch

Source: Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Body of Knowledge, Part 1 (v.13)

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A. The IBAWG Elevator Pitch

Source: Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Body of Knowledge, Part 1 (v.13)

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Originally Sourced to TSG, Inc.

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B. About the IBAWG

Itana Business Architecture Working Group (IBAWG)

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B. About the IBAWG

  • Convened by Dana Miller in late 2017
    • Piet Niederhausen 2021-2022 (Higher education relationships)
    • Dana 2022-Present
      • Looking for a job and co-host�
  • Membership mostly not pure business architects but Enterprise Architects and interested people who bias thought towards the business rather than technology�
  • How many are we?

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B. About the IBAWG

Organized Anarchy

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C. What the IBAWG Cares About

Business architects work towards meaning and survival of the higher education enterprise in which business domains are well-defined and well-aligned with each other and with mission and strategy.�

Toward this goal, the IBAWG helps those with business architecture inclinations work together and make effective decisions on strategies, portfolios, programs, and projects.��

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D. What the IBAWG Has Been Doing

  1. 8 sessions 2024/2025, so far!�
  2. 13 sessions 2023/2024�
  3. 16 sessions 2022/2023�
  4. 16 sessions 2021/2022�
  5. 19 sessions 2020/2021

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D. What the IBAWG Has Been Doing

Shoji Kajita-University of Nagoya and Dana Miller-Dearborn, Michigan, October 2023

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D. What the IBAWG Has Been Doing

IBAWG Goes Big in Japan-AXIES Conference, Kyoto, Japan-December 2023

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D. What the IBAWG Has Been Doing

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D. What the IBAWG Has Been Doing

November 2024 EDUCAUSE San Antonio, Texas Poster Session:

IBAWG and New2EA Collaboration��Thank you Shoji Kajita, Isabel Wong, Corey Gil, Henry Pruitt, jeff kennedy, and Dana Miller!

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D2. IBAWG Call Program — Themes and Highlights

  • Business Architecture Practice
  • Communication and Leadership
  • Higher Education Reference Models
  • Case Studies and Supporting Each Other

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D3. IBAWG Call Program — Themes and Highlights

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  • Building a resources repository in the IBAWG wiki�
  • Sharing good practice�
  • Supporting one another-Community Building

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

  1. Continue to provide HERM support and feedback as the world standard higher education business architecture��

Source: Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Body of Knowledge, Part 1 (v.6.5)

New: Value Streams

HERM

HERM

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

HERM Anatomy (Current V3)�

Artefacts:

  • Business Reference Model
    • Business Model Canvas
    • Business Capability Model
  • Data Reference Model
  • Application Reference Model
  • Technology Reference Model

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

HERM Updates�

  • HERM is moving towards defining value streams
  • HERM is exploring what a Service Reference Model for EDU might look like
  • HERM is exploring what a Student Journey Reference Model might look like
  • HERM product roadmap to V4 and beyond will be seeded with UCISA in March and validated with EUNIS, CAUDIT, EDUCAUSE

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

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  • Develop more robust use-case scenarios and success stories�
  • Focus on Benchmarking��

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next (Benchmarking and Frameworks)

Source: Sara Fox-Business Architect-University of Saskatchewan

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Crunching the numbers: Data drives new look at USask services

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next (Benchmarking)

Source: ChatGPT

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

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  • Build more resources in the EDUCAUSE IBAWG Community Group library�
  • Continue to Build Connections with other “Make Things Better” Groups inside and outside EDUCAUSE�

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Commons (aka Exhibit Hall) was designed around three product and service categories:

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  1. Enterprise Strategy Infrastructure, and Support �
  2. Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Risk Management�
  3. Teaching and Learning

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

Shoji Kajita’s Vision: EDUCAUSE Vendor Hall Organized by Business Capabilities��

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E. What the IBAWG Will do Next

HERM and Vendor Engagement��

Source: https://bit.ly/3wL5JU0

Source: https://enterprise-architecture.org/herm-higher-education-reference-models-in-essential/

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F. What the IBAWG Is Grateful For

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  • Itana Steering Committee�
  • CAUDIT EA Community of Practice�
  • HERM Working Group�
  • Internet2�
  • Itana and EDUCAUSE Communities�
  • Special thanks to Beth Schaefer and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee!!

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G. IBAWG Community Feedback

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  • What do you want the IBAWG to:�
    1. Start doing?

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    • Stop doing?�
    • Continue doing?

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Thank You!

Thank you from the Itana Business Architecture Working Group

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Appendix

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The scope of “things” a business architect typically works on is:

Source: Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Body of Knowledge, Part 1 (v.6.5)

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The ways business architects provide value:

Source: Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Body of Knowledge, Part 1 (v.6.5)

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Dual modes of business architecture

Appendix B: What is Business Architecture?

Descriptive

Business architecture provides “an abstract representation of an enterprise and the business ecosystem in which it operates.”

Transformative

Business architecture establishes “a recurring value stream” that provides the “ability to move from a strategic plan through solution deployment.”

Source: Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Body of Knowledge, Part 1 (v.6.5)

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