Business Architect Systems Thinkins Balanced Business System Sustainable Growth Strategies Managerial Leadership Building a Winning Organization Enterprise-wide Business Process Management Innovation System Cross-functional Excellence 10 Steps To Employee Empowerment 1000ventures.com Ten3 Business e-Coach (full version) Vadim Kotelnikov Master of Business Synergies (MBS) Business Architect Cross-functionally Excellent top manager  

Business Architect is a person who initiates new business ventures or leads business innovation, designs a new business model, and builds a sustainable balanced business system for a lasting success.

Business Success 360

 

 

 

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A sample job description − job overview and responsibilities − is provided below.

The text and the right column contain links to relevant chapters of Business e-Coach that will help you to build the desired competencies.

 

 

 

   

Business Architect

Role

 

 

 

 

A Business Architect plays a key role in creating a strategic business design and structuring an enterprise in terms of its governance structure, systems, innovation management, processes, business information, and cross-functional collaboration.

Business Architect aligns strategic intent, strategic business initiatives, strategic goals, and objectives with decisions regarding value creation, strategic differentiation, resources and capabilities, organization, technologies, products and services; partners and suppliers.

 

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Cross-functional Expertise

 

 

 

 

Focus

The primary focus is the business motivations, business operations and business analysis frameworks and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together.

 

Strategic Project Management

Reward System

Gain Sharing

 

 

 

 

Holistic Approach

The Business Architect works to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.

 

Balanced Business

Holistic Thinking

Systems

Innovation System

 

 

 

 

   

Responsibilities of the Business Architect

 

 

 

 

Demand; support on the improvement of our demand generation campaigns – working across paid ads, re-marketing, SEO, content, affiliates and email marketing. You'll help set up campaigns, write copy, build landing pages, monitor paid spend and reports on the results.

 

IT-Business Alignment: work closely with the IT Architect to align technical solutions with business needs.

 

 

Take your business to the next level

Digital Marketing Trends

Creative Destruction

Reciprocal Marketing

Customer Experience Management

Plan

User Experience

 

 

 

   

Organization

 

 

 

 

The Business Architect reports into business management and works closely with a counterpart in IT to align technical solutions with business needs. The Business Architect may have supervisory responsibility, possibly acting as coach and mentor to junior members of the Business Architecture Center of Excellence. In addition, the Business Architect works though others at every level of the organization soliciting strategic imperatives from senior leaders and executives, and supporting business unit managers as they leverage business architecture artifacts to create their business plans. Finally, the Business Architect may provide direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of various business scenarios, and delivery of bottom line business value.

Responsibilities
Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.
Skills and Qualifications
A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
Conclusion
There you have it – my attempt at a job description for the Business Architect. Please feel free to use it as a starting point; I encourage you to work with your Resource Manager and adapt it to fit your organization. As always, comments are welcome.

 

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