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Business Architecture
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Business Architecture

by Jonathan Hunsley, Debra Paul, Victoria Banner, Michael Greenhalgh, Vicky Rothwell
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 12m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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4 MOTIVATION AND ORGANISATIONAL VIEW OF BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION

This chapter introduces the motivation and organisational views of business architecture. It covers the following topics:

  • rationale for business motivation analysis;
  • core purpose and core values;
  • techniques for business motivation analysis;
  • knowledge management and organisational memory;
  • business model analysis;
  • organisation structures;
  • ecosystem analysis;
  • organisational culture.

RATIONALE FOR BUSINESS MOTIVATION ANALYSIS

Chapter 1 explained that business architecture aims to improve the long-term health of an organisation. One way that it seeks to achieve this objective is through ensuring alignment and shared understanding of the organisation’s responses to the ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781780176727