Business Architecture Management: Architecting the Business for Consistency and Alignment (Management for Professionals)

This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise architecture management with a specific focus on the business aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture management have dealt mainly with aspects of information technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture from business motivation and models to business execution. The book provides examples of how architectural thinking can be applied in these areas, thus combining different perspectives into a consistent whole. In-depth experiences from end-user organizations help readers to understand the abstract concepts of business architecture management and to form blueprints for their own professional approach. Business architecture professionals, researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its hands-on examples of successful business architecture management practices. ​ Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Demystifying Business Architecture....Pages 1-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 An Architectural Approach to Strategizing: Structure and Orientation for Developing the Business Motivation....Pages 21-33 Corporate Strategy and Corporate Branding: Reference Frame and Examples of Integrated Corporate Strategic & Brand Management (CS&BM)....Pages 35-51 From Business Motivation to Business Model and Beyond: A Customer Value-Driven Approach....Pages 53-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 The Capability Management Process: Finding Your Way into Capability Engineering....Pages 77-105 Using Capability Models for Strategic Alignment....Pages 107-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Can Culture Be Designed?....Pages 125-139 From Value Chain to Value Network: Reinventing the Enterprise in the Light of Technology Forces....Pages 141-159 Liberate Your Business Potential via Actionable Patterns....Pages 161-178 Business Architecture for Change Program Design and Planning....Pages 179-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Building Agile Enterprises: A Model-Based Approach to Rapid Realization of Business Value....Pages 205-225 Effectively Modeling Your Architecture....Pages 227-241 Business Architecture Quantified: How to Measure Business Complexity....Pages 243-268 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 Business Architectures for Niche-Market Enterprises....Pages 271-285 Bringing Business Architecture to Life: How to Establish Business Architecture Practices in Your Organization....Pages 287-300 Back Matter....Pages 301-304