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The following term definitions are the official definitions certified by the Business Architect Association. These definitions may be different than those any person may use within their company. This is due to the fact that definitions for these terms are not yet standardized in the industry. The following Business Architect Association definitions will be used in all BAA documents and in the Certified Business Architect testing. A complete listing of all terms can be found in the Business Architecture Glossary found on the BAA website.
Business Architecture
The practice of creating a design to satisfy an organization’s strategic and tactical directives by providing an enterprise-wide, holistic business view, and identifying and monitoring both internal and external impacting factors and interdependencies.
Business Architect
An individual or team charged with the responsibility of collaborating with all areas and levels of an organization for the purposes of coordinating efforts to provide an enterprise-wide, holistic view of the organization, create a plan to satisfy the organization’s strategic and tactical directives, identify and monitor internal and external impacting factors and interdependencies, articulate strategic capabilities and evaluate and communicate potential impacts so as to optimize the efforts and deliver the business goals.
Business Capabilities
A set of tangible and conceptual resources an organization uses to create and deliver product(s) and/or service(s).
Technical Capabilities
The automated services that support business capabilities – at either the capability level or the business function level.
Consulting–provides a professional orientation and approach to root cause analysis, problem solving, the interpersonal skills required to communicate and guide senior leadership through a discovery, design and implementation process to deliver changes necessary to better align the organizations overall business architecture with the intended outcomes of the business strategy.
Systems Dynamics / Holistic Thinking–ensures that the Business Architecture and the process / methodology which is deployed consider both the internal and external environment, and the interplay within and across each, the interdependencies and relationships across the entire organizational ecosystem and how a change or shift can have both intended and / or unintended consequences to the Business Architecture design and more fundamentally can have a profound positive or negative effect on the entire enterprise.
IT Service – Automated Service
The IT infrastructure (hardware, network, net services, middleware, tools, and computer operations) components, the applications systems, the databases and data that are needed to deliver a specific definable element of support to a business activity.
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