Architecture of the Enterprise
The language of design for perpetual vitality
The business architecture perspective makes sense of your company's current design and guides its future design.
Architectural frameworks reflecting the grammar of enterprise design catalyze inquiry into new possibilities while making for a coherent design. The perspective these frameworks provide brings the elements and their structure that make up your company to the forefront for examination, consideration, and reconfiguration.
In addition, the architectural tools and frameworks turbo-charge your learning by applying the theories, processes, frameworks, and rules of thumb discovered in prior investigations and inquiries. This avoids the time-sink of addressing each new problem you face based on first principles. The holistic and first principle-based frameworks provide ongoing guidance to managers in the selection of the best tools for their inquiry and problem solving needs.
How you will benefit
- Expand your advantage creation capability
- You will have a pragmatic means to get an overview of the company that supports the discussion of issues, problem solving, integration of initiatives, and company-wide innovation
- Alignment of your strategy with your business enterprise design
- Organizing frameworks enable the integration of focused improvement and innovation efforts
- Leverage your knowledge to turbo-charge learning
- Make sense of what service providers are offering in light of your particular company and its needs
- Enrich your company's overall innovation and design capabilities
What you will learn
- How to make your business design explicit
- As the company evolves, how to keep the congruency of its elements and their interrelationships maintained or redeveloped as necessary to keep the company aligned with its purpose
- How to perform effective inquiry on complex systems in order to effectively understand your company as it currently is or to design what it will be
- How inquiry with the right frameworks can generate new insights into creating advantage
- How to extract the strategy implicit in the design of a company
- How to see your organization in a whole new light to stimulate discussion of how it might be refined or redesigned
- How to turbo-charge your learning using architectural frameworks
- How to make sense of business-related frameworks in general, see the underlying principles they reflect, and determine their appropriate use