Business Architecture Services
Our Business Architecture offering addresses issues that we have encountered while working for large and complex organisations and also as mentors for small, medium scale organisations (SMEs).
- The need for efficient, coherent specifications for areas that impact the organisation as a whole (strategy management, compliance)
- The need for a more dependable way of converting creative ideas into practical procedures, and protocols.
- Duplication of work and bureaucracy that does not add value to outcomes.
- Need for improved collaboration between the core business and support services in organisations.
- Organisation typically find it difficult to manage suppliers, IT vendors and manage third-party risks.
Expertise
Our Business Architecture practice uses our proven approach, and through our experience in:
- Working with leading organisations across Industry areas (Finance, the New Zealand Public Sector, the Charity Sector, High Growth & High Tech).
- Collaborating with professionals in Organisational Development, Outcome Performance, Finance, Service Design, Programme Management, Business Analysis (enterprise and functional) , Audit and IT functions.
- Governance, Risk and Compliance and Strategy functions
Products
Here are some of the typical work products that we develop using our business architecture expertise:
- Business Design Blueprints – Business Model and operating model specifications that serve as a reference for making a strong case for investment and to reliably scale business transformation.
- Business Cases – We develop compelling cases for investment in your initiatives, supported by comprehensive cost and benefits models and analysis that are aligned to new business models and new ways of working
- Strategic Position papers: We develop collateral to support executive decisions. We address Strategy & Vision objectives systemic risks and help develop strategic working relationships.
- IT Requirements Definitions – Our business architecture blueprints helps shape more detailed IT requirements, business rules, information and data maps which reduce the risks of ICT Projects failures and assist in external review.
- Fully populated qualitative and quantitative model repositories for in-house use.
Our work serves to complement Business Analysis and Programme/Project work and builds stakeholder confidence in their work.