A centralized business architecture team is characterized by:

Architects reporting centrally who manage the practices and standards

What are hp's guiding principles to make business architecture effective?

Hire architect, control language, engage early, traceability, communicate

The problem addressed by Business Arch is when the GAP between the IT organization and the rest of the business is:

Too wide a gap -- IT work is NOT aligned with the business strategy.

The BA team structure defines how business architects are distributed. Common approaches are:

Centralized team, decentralized team, or a hub-and-spoke

Potential disadvantages (cons) of the Centralized BA Team Structure include:

Too distant from the business, leading to a lack of buy-in and access

Business architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of:

capabilities, E2E value delivery, information, and organizational structure

Enterprise Architecture can be deconstructed into several views which include:

Business, automation & service, data, platform & technology, and initiative

This open framework, created in the mid-1990s, developed into the widely employed & recognized Business Architecture

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

The "Business Architecture is an IT discipline" myth can be addressed by:

Having business participate, understand, and leverage business architecture

Business architecture developed a formal framework for meeting a wide variety of business demands first started by:

A grassroots movement by business professionals now evolving the practice

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A centralized business architecture team is characterized by:
Architects socializing output and focusing on non-business activities
Different business units with practices and standards managed by units
Distributed across the business with report centrally
Architects reporting centrally who manage the practices and standards
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What are hp's guiding principles to make business architecture effective?
Focus on technical capability and improve security
Hire architect, control language, engage early, traceability, communicate
Build governance early and maintain confidentiality of all material
Use simple terms, wait to be engaged by leadership, follow IT rules
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The problem addressed by Business Arch is when the GAP between the IT organization and the rest of the business is:
Too narrow a gap -- no competition between IT and the business.
Too narrow a gap -- IT and the business offer no unique value to the organi
No gap -- no specialization of skill in IT or the business.
Too wide a gap -- IT work is NOT aligned with the business strategy.
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The BA team structure defines how business architects are distributed. Common approaches are:
Top-down business architecture team to work with the corporate functions
A group of technology experts in a Center of Excellence
A cross-functional group of technical experts
Centralized team, decentralized team, or a hub-and-spoke
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Potential disadvantages (cons) of the Centralized BA Team Structure include:
Fragmented view of business architecture with inconsistent architecture
Requires virtual collaboration mechanisms and significant maturity
Too distant from the business, leading to a lack of buy-in and access
An enterprise view of business architecture with a focal point for it
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Business architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of:
capabilities, E2E value delivery, information, and organizational structure
services, functions, business goals, and business processes.
functions, customer interactions, data analytics, and repositories.
technology infrastructure, applications, services, and legal capability.
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Enterprise Architecture can be deconstructed into several views which include:
Technology view, application view, information view, and world view.
Enterprise view, community view, organization view, and technocratic view.
Financial view, human resources view, technology view, and shareholder view
Business, automation & service, data, platform & technology, and initiative
8
This open framework, created in the mid-1990s, developed into the widely employed & recognized Business Architecture
US Depart of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Mgmt
DeWan Framework
Zachman Framework
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
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The "Business Architecture is an IT discipline" myth can be addressed by:
Securing the access rights to only IT specialists
Using IT controlled language for access only for IT trained business users
Having business participate, understand, and leverage business architecture
Keeping the IT references models in the IT organization
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Business architecture developed a formal framework for meeting a wide variety of business demands first started by:
A theoretical or academic concept
A grassroots movement by business professionals now evolving the practice
A buzzword spawning from industry analysts or large consultancies.
A well-formed discipline, with a formal certification program and industry

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