Business Architect

Objective

Enable business architects to create, refine, and communicate the organization's business architecture, aligning strategic initiatives and operational activities with overall business goals.

Scenario

A business architect is tasked with ensuring that the organization's transformation initiatives are aligned with strategic objectives. Using Orthogramic, the architect develops a business architecture that connects strategy, capabilities, value streams, and organizational structures. Orthogramic also facilitates collaboration across departments to ensure architectural alignment.

Steps and benefits

Establish strategic alignment
Orthogramic helps business architects map the organization's strategic objectives to business capabilities, value streams, and processes. This enables architects to visualize how initiatives contribute to strategic goals and how they impact various departments and value streams.

Benefit: Provides a clear view of the alignment between initiatives and strategic objectives, ensuring that efforts are targeted where they will deliver the most value.

Document and refine the business architecture
Orthogramic allows architects to upload, review, and refine key architectural documents. The platform provides guidance on aligning each document with relevant business architecture domains, ensuring consistency and completeness across all architecture artifacts.

Benefit: Ensures that the business architecture is comprehensive, up-to-date, and aligned with industry best practices, providing a solid foundation for decision-making.

Collaborate across departments
Orthogramic facilitates cross-functional collaboration by linking architectural documents to operational activities, projects, and departments. This ensures that stakeholders across the organization are aligned on the architectural vision and understand their role in achieving it.

Benefit: Improves collaboration between departments, reduces silos, and ensures a unified approach to implementing strategic initiatives.

Track progress and compliance
The platform allows architects to track the alignment of initiatives with architectural standards and compliance requirements. Orthogramic flags any misalignments, ensuring that all initiatives adhere to the defined business architecture.

Benefit: Minimizes risk by ensuring that all initiatives are compliant with both internal standards and external regulations, reducing the likelihood of costly missteps.

Visualize the impact of change
Orthogramic offers impact analysis tools that allow business architects to visualize the ripple effect of changes to the business architecture. Whether it's a shift in strategic priorities or changes in capabilities, the platform helps architects anticipate the consequences of these changes across the organization.

Benefit: Enables proactive decision-making, allowing architects to make informed recommendations and reduce the risk of unintended consequences from changes to the business architecture.

Integration with enterprise tools
Orthogramic integrates with popular enterprise tools such as Jira, Planview, and Confluence, enabling business architects to align their work with ongoing projects and operational tools without disrupting workflows.

Benefit: Business architects can seamlessly incorporate architectural insights into project planning and execution, enhancing alignment across strategic and operational layers.

Monitor performance and adaptability
Orthogramic provides a dashboard to track the performance of initiatives and their alignment with business architecture over time. This helps architects adjust plans and architectures as the business environment changes.

Benefit: Ensures that the business architecture remains adaptable and responsive to changes in strategy, technology, or market conditions, supporting continuous improvement and long-term sustainability.