Service
Business Architecture
Describe the business itself — capabilities, value streams, and accountability — so change targets the right part of the organization.
Business Architecture makes the enterprise legible in business terms. We map capabilities, value streams, information concepts, and organizational accountability so investment and change decisions land on the part of the business that actually needs them.
The problem this addresses
Initiatives are scoped around systems and departments rather than capabilities and value streams, so the same structural problem is solved repeatedly and never resolved.
Who we work with
Business unit leaders, operating model owners, and transformation directors.
Typical artifacts
- Capability model and maturity heat map
- Value stream and accountability maps
- Capability-to-initiative traceability matrix
Capabilities
What this includes
- Capability model definition and maturity assessment
- Value stream mapping and end-to-end process alignment
- Operating model and organizational accountability design
- Business information and decision-rights modelling
- Investment traceability from capability to initiative
- Business-side design principles and guardrails
Outcomes
What changes as a result
One shared business language across strategy, finance, and technology
Change scoped to capabilities rather than to departments or systems
Traceable investment: every initiative maps to a capability it improves
How this differs from Enterprise Architecture
Business Architecture describes the business — what capabilities exist, how value flows, and who is accountable. Enterprise Architecture describes the systems, data, and integration estate that must support it. The two are complementary and deliberately separate: business architecture defines the target the technical estate has to serve, and enterprise architecture governs how that estate is designed to serve it.
Related service domains
Next step
Discuss Business Architecture with someone who has delivered it.
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