WEEKLY LIVE SESSIONS Thursdays 14:00-17:00 SAST / 12:00-15:00 UTC VIA ZOOM FOR 16 WEEKS An intensive online programme to help senior enterprise and business architects, strategists and business analysts quickly and competently analyse a business, make well founded recommendations for transforming it, ensure stakeholders' buy-in, and mobilise for implementation. Includes thought leadership in integrated meta models, stakeholder modelling, process architectures, integration of strategy, architecture and programme management. LEARNING OUTCOMES Rapidly identify the real strategic issues Transf ..read more

We are about to start our next Business Architecture Mastery Programme this Thursday (26th). It runs for 16 weeks until 11th May. We have an excellent cohort and it promises to be another great experience. This time round we have added new material on how AI and related topics will impact business plans and architectures, as well as how to use Wardley maps to leverage the projected lifecycle of technologies in our forward planning. Some comments from the delegates: “Business Architecture is a lot more than just identifying capabilities and modelling. I really appreciated how it brought a wide ..read more

I am at Heathrow, returning from the UK and the POEM Conference, hosted by Middlesex University. First international trip since the pandemic and it’s great to get out and about again! The nature of “Enterprise” has changed from the simplistic company or organisation to diverse concepts, including: A legal entity A commercial, government or not for profit entity An extended value chain of partners and potentially, customers A project to bring about some desired change A value adding operating model, possibly including algorithms,AI and platforms that deliver value Which can pretty ..read more

Take your organisation and your team to the next level. To achieve this you need an approach that takes into account all the various dimensions and stakeholders, external and internal. One that provides you with powerful techniques and generates persuasive, actionable deliverables. One that resonates with your executives and their lived experience/domain knowledge but that also leverages technology, digital and existing I.T. You need to have the knowledge and awareness of key trends shaping the world and industry, build skills and capability and get your team and other strategic players on th ..read more

Are you battling to get a job or the position / promotion you want during these difficult times? TOGAF® certification is proven to improve job prospects and remuneration received in enterprise architecture roles. To assist you during the current challenges (COVID, unemployment, business uncertainty), we are offering a significant discount to individuals on our upcoming Practical TOGAF® courses, subject to the following conditions: Individuals must be paying for their own tuition (i.e. not your current employer) Course fees must be paid in full by Friday before course attendance Places a ..read more

    If you want a rapid but comprehensive course to transform you into a competent Business Architect, please read on. Our Techniques and Deliverables of Business Architecture 5 day online live intensive course is coming up soon: 14 - 18th March 2022. We introduced this course in 2011 and it has run to great acclaim since, training over 170 successful architects. It has been revised regularly and encapsulates leading practice. During the pandemic we have fully transformed it to run well in a remote interactive mode. The course stresses the design of the future business enabled by te ..read more

We believe: That business architecture is bigger than popular frameworks and methods admit That certification requires real world experience not just a body of knowledge That the important stuff that shapes strategy is “out there” not “in here” That innovative thinking, ethical behaviour and emerging technology can be employed to deliver desirable futures while minimising risk and avoiding negative consequences That great strategy and designs are emergent That good meta models provide the best basis for integration of different aspects of enterprise architecture work and with adjacent discipl ..read more

Do you have all the skills/knowledge and experience required of a competent Business Architect? Find out in our Business Architect Competency Survey, now live! It will highlight where you shine and where you may have work to do. Take the survey. The survey is based on our perspective that business architects need a broad mix of skills including business understanding, contextual awareness, strategic thinking, modelling skills, persuasion skills, architecture techniques, awareness of economic, social, technology trends, knowledge of reference models, quality concepts and maturity evaluation, a ..read more

Are you battling to get a job or the position you want during these difficult times? TOGAF® certification is proven to improve job prospects and remuneration received in enterprise architecture roles. To assist you during the current challenging times, we are offering a 33% discount to individuals on our Practical TOGAF® course 2 - 6 August, subject to these conditions: Individuals must be paying for their own tuition (i.e. not your current employer) Course fees must be paid in full by Friday before course attendance Places are still available (we limit numbers to ensure personal attent ..read more

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