What is Business Architecture?
Business Architecture describes how an organisation creates value and operates.
It can include:
- Business capabilities
- Value streams
- Business processes
- Organisational structures
- Products and services
- Customers and stakeholders
- Business objectives
Business Architecture is particularly valuable because it provides a business-focused foundation for architecture.
Rather than starting with applications and technology, it starts with what the organisation actually needs to achieve.
For example, a bank may identify capabilities such as customer onboarding, lending, payments and fraud management.
Those capabilities can then be connected to processes, information, applications and technology.