Business Architecture Consulting & Advisory Services
Business Architecture Center Of Excellence™ provides practitioner-based consulting and advisory services directly related to Business Architecture activities, from training and certification to independent assessments, implementation support, Executive Briefings, and on-demand services.
BACOE™ starts by understanding the result your organization wants to achieve, then helps establish a focused approach for moving toward that objective.
Services can support an entire organization or an individual business unit across private, public, government, and non-profit environments.
Access Business Architecture Expertise When You Need It
Virtual Business Architecture, or vBA, gives organizations access to BACOE practitioner expertise without requiring a fully staffed in-house Business Architecture function.
BACOE practitioners can work remotely, on-site, or through a combination of both approaches using BACOE's Quick Start Business Architecture methodology.
What vBA Can Support
Turn important business knowledge and strategies from mostly implicit understanding into more explicit forms that can help reduce risk and improve agility.
Develop Business Capabilities that connect Business Architecture work with organizational understanding and priorities.
Support optimization of business and technology processes, including Application Health Check activities.
vBA can help organizations begin or advance Business Architecture work while using BACOE practitioner resources according to the scale and scope of the activity required.
This can be particularly valuable when maintaining equivalent Business Architecture expertise internally would be difficult or uneconomical.
Business Architecture Support From Education Through Implementation
Explore BACOE services according to the Business Architecture challenge, activity, or objective your organization needs to address.
See How Well Your Business Architecture Is Working
A Business Architecture can contain substantial information and still fall short as a practical strategic asset.
BACOE's Independent Business Architecture Health Assessment provides an objective practitioner perspective on whether your Business Architecture clearly represents the business, communicates Business Intent, reveals important relationships, supports stakeholders, and contributes to organizational decision-making.
What BACOE Reviews
BACOE examines how effectively your Business Architecture represents and connects key areas of the organization, including:
- Strategies and Goals
- Processes and Activities
- Assets, Resources, and Inventories
- Organizations and People in Roles with Responsibilities
- Locations and Geographies
- Events, Triggers, and Cycles
- Business Relationships
- Business Intent
The assessment considers whether these elements form a complete, understandable, and useful representation of the business.
What BACOE Evaluates
BACOE looks at whether your Business Architecture is:
- Accessible and understandable across the organization
- Expressed through consistent vocabulary, models, diagrams, and information
- Usable as a problem-solving and decision-support resource
- Technology agnostic
- Useful to IT when considering future solutions
- Capable of showing organizational progress
- Valuable for identifying gaps, overlaps, initiatives, and opportunities
- Able to support stakeholder alignment and governance
- Maintained as business priorities and conditions change
How the Assessment Works
Your organization can securely provide the relevant Business Architecture documents and information or give BACOE authorized read-only access to the appropriate repository.
A Business Liaison may be assigned for clarification or access support, while BACOE is designed to require limited involvement from your internal team.
BACOE emphasizes secure handling of confidential and proprietary information and conducts the assessment from an independent, objective, and technology-agnostic practitioner perspective.
What You Receive
The final assessment provides:
- An overview of the assessment and objectives
- An Executive Summary
- Detailed assessment findings
- Areas meeting or falling short of expectations
- Document and resource cross-references
- Traceability back to supporting source information
- Observations, questions, and suggested areas for improvement
The report does not impose a generic project roadmap. Instead, it gives your organization evidence and findings that can be considered against its goals, budgets, priorities, and operating realities.
Government and Federal Environments
BACOE also has experience assessing Architecture information in government environments involving Federal Enterprise Architecture and the Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework.
Organizations with federal requirements can discuss how those considerations relate to their existing Architecture information and assessment objectives.
What Comes Next
Assessment findings may identify straightforward improvements as well as issues requiring additional time, investment, process change, or organizational action.
The objective is to give decision-makers a clearer understanding of where the Business Architecture stands and what areas deserve further attention.
Bring Clarity to Business Architecture at the Management Level
BACOE Executive Briefings help business executives and technology management professionals understand Business Architecture without unnecessary marketing language or technical confusion.
The briefing focuses on what Business Architecture is intended to accomplish, how it relates to organizational strategy, and how a practical Business Architecture effort can support business and technology management.
What the Briefing Can Cover
Topics may include:
- Business Architecture as a strategy
- BACOE Business Architecture methodology
- Business Capabilities
- Business Architecture patterns
- Alignment between business planning and information technology
- Human-consumable models
- Project initiatives
- BACOE's six-week Business Architecture development process
Executive Briefings can span four hours or longer depending on organizational needs.
Sessions can also be tailored around existing BACOE topics such as Federal Business Architecture, Business Process Mapping, and Business Process Improvement.
Develop Business Architecture Capability for Practitioners and Organizations
BACOE Business Architect Training and Certification Workshops help practitioners expand their Business Architecture knowledge while demonstrating their skills and experience through a practitioner-based certification approach.
For professionals, this supports continued development within the Business Architecture discipline.
For organizations, BACOE's graded certification structure provides a way to evaluate demonstrated Business Architecture knowledge, experience, and performance when developing internal capability or working with Business Architecture professionals.
BACOE training combines theoretical understanding with practical application to help participants build the base of understanding required to perform Business Architecture work.
Need Business Architecture Support?
Whether your organization needs on-demand practitioner support, an Independent Health Assessment, an Executive Briefing, training, or another BACOE advisory service, begin with the result you are trying to achieve. Speak with BACOE about your objectives, scope, timing, and Business Architecture needs.