Business Architecture Management

We are a Guild Accredited Training Partner® (GATP®). Our foundation and advanced courses on business architecture management are accredited through the Business Architecture Guild and help prepare for the certification exam to become a Certified Business Architect®.

The main basis of our courses is the BIZBOK® Guide (A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge®) as well as our anthology "Business Architecture Management - Architecting the Business for Consistency and Alignment".

Bootcamp: Business Architecture Management

Our business architecture management (BAM) bootcamp incorporates the contents of the foundation and advanced courses as outlined below to offer a comprehensive preparation for the Certified Business Architect® (CBA®) exam in a single event.

Course Content

In particular, the course includes dealing with the following topics:

  • Overview of business architecture elements, from business motivation via business model to business execution
  • Business architecture mapping, incl., e.g., value stream mapping, capability mapping, information mapping, organization mapping
  • Business architecture patterns
  • Business architecture analysis and design
  • Implementation of business architecture management
Course Duration

4 days

Trainer

Arash Mostahari
Partner

Arash Mostashari is a Partner at Scape Consulting and responsible for the academy business. He is a certified Enterprise and Business Architect (incl. TOGAF®, CBA®, ArchiMate®) and trainer for Business Architecture. As a consultant, he is specialized in establishing, realigning, and implementing EA capabilities. In this context he has been helping companies across various industries at business and IT level in problem solving, planning, development, and communication using architecture methods and techniques, such as strategy mapping, value stream mapping, customer journey mapping and capability-based planning.

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Foundation Course: Business Architecture Management

In our business architecture management foundation course you obtain an overview of business architecture elements and get to know selected methods / techniques for their application. This includes their integration into processes of corporate planning (e.g., strategy development, portfolio planning) as well as into solution projects.

Course Content

Specifically, the course deals with the following topics:

  • Overview of business architecture content and benefits
  • Business motivation: elements (e.g., goals, strategies) and instruments
  • Business model: elements (e.g., products / services, customers, cooperations, channels) and instruments
  • Business operations: elements (e.g., business capabilities, processes, organizational structure, culture) and instruments
  • Integrated view of the business architecture
  • Business architecture modeling
  • Organizational implementation (e.g., roles)
Course Duration

1 day (inhouse: extensible to 2 days if desired)

Trainer

Arash Mostahari
Partner

Arash Mostashari is a Partner at Scape Consulting and responsible for the academy business. He is a certified Enterprise and Business Architect (incl. TOGAF®, CBA®, ArchiMate®) and trainer for Business Architecture. As a consultant, he is specialized in establishing, realigning, and implementing EA capabilities. In this context he has been helping companies across various industries at business and IT level in problem solving, planning, development, and communication using architecture methods and techniques, such as strategy mapping, value stream mapping, customer journey mapping and capability-based planning.

Advanced Course: Business Motivation / Strategy

Our business motivation / strategy course offers specifics about elements and corresponding methods / techniques of strategic planning, illustrated based on examples from practice.

Course Content

In particular, the course deals with the following topics:

  • Overview of business motivation elements as part of the business architecture
  • Business motivation mapping (e.g., vision, goals, strategies)
  • Business motivation setting (context analyses, goal definition, strategy development)
  • Role of the business model as an instrument of strategic planning
  • Communication of a defined business motivation
Course Duration

1 day

Trainer

Arash Mostahari
Partner

Arash Mostashari is a Partner at Scape Consulting and responsible for the academy business. He is a certified Enterprise and Business Architect (incl. TOGAF®, CBA®, ArchiMate®) and trainer for Business Architecture. As a consultant, he is specialized in establishing, realigning, and implementing EA capabilities. In this context he has been helping companies across various industries at business and IT level in problem solving, planning, development, and communication using architecture methods and techniques, such as strategy mapping, value stream mapping, customer journey mapping and capability-based planning.

Advanced Course: Business Model

Our business model course offers specifics about elements and corresponding methods / techniques of business model management, illustrated based on examples from practice.

Course Content

In particular, the course deals with the following topics:

  • Overview of business model elements as part of the business architecture
  • Business model mapping and visualization
  • Business model patterns
  • Business model analysis
  • Business model design
  • Use of the business model for identification of required business capabilities
Course Duration

1 day (inhouse: extensible to 2 days if desired)

Trainer

Arash Mostahari
Partner

Arash Mostashari is a Partner at Scape Consulting and responsible for the academy business. He is a certified Enterprise and Business Architect (incl. TOGAF®, CBA®, ArchiMate®) and trainer for Business Architecture. As a consultant, he is specialized in establishing, realigning, and implementing EA capabilities. In this context he has been helping companies across various industries at business and IT level in problem solving, planning, development, and communication using architecture methods and techniques, such as strategy mapping, value stream mapping, customer journey mapping and capability-based planning.

Advanced Course: Business Operations

Our business operations course offers specifics about elements and corresponding methods / techniques of architectural management at the level of business execution (e.g., capabilities, processes, functions, objects), illustrated based on examples from practice.

Course Content

In particular, the course deals with the following topics:

  • Overview of business operations / execution elements as part of the business architecture
  • Business execution mapping (esp. capabilities, processes / functions, objects, organization, culture)
  • Integration of the different business execution perspectives
  • Business execution patterns
  • Target business execution design
Course Duration

2 days

Trainer

Arash Mostahari
Partner

Arash Mostashari is a Partner at Scape Consulting and responsible for the academy business. He is a certified Enterprise and Business Architect (incl. TOGAF®, CBA®, ArchiMate®) and trainer for Business Architecture. As a consultant, he is specialized in establishing, realigning, and implementing EA capabilities. In this context he has been helping companies across various industries at business and IT level in problem solving, planning, development, and communication using architecture methods and techniques, such as strategy mapping, value stream mapping, customer journey mapping and capability-based planning.

References

Feedback of Participants

»A great overview on BAM in delineation to BIZBOK. Prepares very well for certification. Helped tremendously to get ideas how to improve our BAM.«

(BAM Bootcamp 05/2017)

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»It's worth it.«

(BAM Bootcamp 05/2017)

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»Recommendable and worked out in a very reasonable way.«

(BAM Bootcamp 05/2017)

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»A very good overview of the foundations of BAM, presented in a colorful way.«

(BAM Foundation 05/2017)

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»Very good for [...] introduction into business architecture.«

(BAM Foundation 05/2017)

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»Very good overview.«

(BAM Foundation 05/2017)

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»This is a course focusing on the business model, which is very different (and better!) than other courses I have seen / come by.«

(BAM Bootcamp 11/2017)

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»Extensive preparation to get ready to work on business architecture topics.«

(BAM Bootcamp 11/2017)

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»Recommended!«

(Business Operations Course 06/2018)

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»A complex, multifaceted topic successfully and proficiently presented.«

(Business Operations Course 06/2018)

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»The complex topic has been presented in a very comprehensible way based on practical examples. [...] I would gladly recommend this training to others.«

(Business Operations Course 06/2018)

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»Very substantiated, comprehensive and very structured presentation of the training contents. Good portion of practice. Helpful examples. Excellent training material.«

(Business Operations Course 06/2018)

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»It is of high value!«

(BAM Bootcamp 06/2018)

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»Comprehensive training from strategy to execution with lots of background information.«

(BAM Bootcamp 06/2018)

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»Good course on business architecture.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Very informative. Good resource pack.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Well structured and comprehensive. Good delivery. Plenty of scope for questions and discussion.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Comprehensive introduction to business architecture supported by useful exercises.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Very comprehensive: if you are serious about pursuing business architecture you should take the course.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Excellent overview of all things on BAM, with supporting exercises to bring the theory to life.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Very good structure. Covers a very broad scope.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Good - certainly worth doing.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»The best "chalk and talk" experience I've had in years.«

(BAM Bootcamp 10/2018)

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»Extremely good course.«

(BAM Bootcamp 01/2019)

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»Very in-depth learning about business architecture as a discipline and very applicable methods.«

(BAM Bootcamp 01/2019)

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»You will get a thorough insight into business architecture, with many good examples for practical use.«

(BAM Bootcamp 01/2019)

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»Saves time and brings a lot of transparency and understanding to complex topics.«

(BAM Bootcamp 04/2019)

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»I would recommend the BAM course to anyone working in the fields of business analysis / development and strategy execution. It gives a very structured approach in linking the different fields together.«

(BAM Bootcamp 04/2019)

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»Very good instructor, who was able to answer any questions in a perspective way.«

(BAM Bootcamp 04/2019)

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»Highly competent teacher.«

(BAM Bootcamp 04/2019)

Business Architecture Management
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