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Prioritize key business & system problems:

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Business stakeholders are thinking how new service offering will help them to increase their revenue base as well market share. Sometimes, these initiatives might be targeted at cost savings in short term or long term.

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The financial concerns of the business owners and strategist are picked up by the business process owners. They start deliberating on the nuances of improving customer service or process efficiency, process transparency, etc. These are critical to ensure successful launch and implementation of a new business idea. Sometime, you may realize that these concerns are not limited to just 2 or 3 major factors. The problem becomes even more interesting when you start to see when dependency is non linear.

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As of now, both strategists and business owners are pretty oblivious ;-) ;-) to the plight of the system owners as for them, systems are "magic”. It’s about using a magic wand and the systems will start to fall in line with the changes proposed. The reality is just the reverse. The systems are so brittle by then (remember! we are not talking about a scenario wherein new services are being introduced for the first time). You will agree that several tactical solutions would have already existed in the past.
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As you will move further and start discussing with technology folks, you will hear another set of challenges. Of course, some new ones while others old enough. How do we combine multiple technical initiatives such as Web 2.0, Virtualization, Cloud computing? Also, how do we ensure that these initiatives are implemented in the context of enterprise architecture and not isolated.

How do we address system & technology level issues with the help of architecture styles like Component Oriented Architecture (COA), SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) or MDA (Model Driven Architecture? Let’s look at how does different category of models relate.

Mapping Strategy views & models to Process views & models

In this step, we are going to translate financial concerns into business concerns. The business-related concerns will get mapped to existing systems and technology, which will be used to address the business concerns.

As you see in the picture below, in order to meet the increasing revenue target.
The enterprise has to address two important issues, which are improved customer service as well as higher productivity (blocks marked 2 & 3).
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-Product and system rationalization as there are several overlapping systems today within an enterprise.
- Re-engineering of those existing applications which are automating outdated processes and
- How do we integrate the various systems across different departments?

You will agree that very often, system and technical initiatives are lost in the war of jargon. That's where it's critical to ensure selection of appropriate architecture styles and frameworks. Appropriate combinations can help us to manage multiple initiatives, which in turn can meet the organizational business goals.

How do you combine architecture frameworks and architecture styles in solving key business problems? That's what we are doing ta iCMG. It'll be interesting to note how does enterprise architecture models evolve, and its ability to solve and business problems.

How do you combine architecture frameworks and architecture styles in solving key business problems? That's what we are doing ta iCMG. It'll be interesting to note how does enterprise architecture models evolve, and its ability to solve and business problems.
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