Course Description
Identify core competencies for the organization
Model the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architecture
Perform customer value analysis
Plan for process management
Identify the TO-BE IT architecture
Recognize the importance of service-oriented architecture
Manage the project portfolio
Recognize the importance of impact analyses, risk analyses and feasibility studies
Identify the components of the decision package
Senior business analysts are increasingly involved in pre-project activities to ensure that solutions to business problems reflect the organization’s business strategy. Through strategic enterprise analysis, the senior business analyst becomes a vital contributor to helping the organization determine sound investments and enhance its project portfolio. These activities ensure the organization can maximize the return on investment, minimize duplication of efforts across the organization, and realign business operations to meet executive management’s strategy.
Strategic Enterprise Analysis is an advanced course designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to begin working as part of a strategic enterprise analysis team. In particular, the course covers the major activities of strategic enterprise analysis that must be conducted to study the enterprise architecture. These activities include analyzing core competencies, performing customer value analysis, performing process management, examining the IT architecture, and evaluating the project portfolio. The course also examines the impact of service oriented architecture (SOA) on the enterprise architecture.
After completing this course, you will understand the steps for modeling the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architectures and how the TO-BE enterprise architecture contributes to the overall project portfolio. The importance of conducting an impact analysis, risk analysis and feasibility study are discussed to ensure that the business case for future investments traces back to the business strategy.
Recommendation: Prior to taking this course, you should have acquired the background as taught in How to Gather and Document User Requirements, Use Case Modeling and Process Modeling Management.
This course is aligned with version 2.0 of the Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)™.
Agenda
Introduction to Strategic Enterprise Analysis
Identifying components of the enterprise architecture
Planning for business rules, data management and change management
Identifying core competencies
Enterprise Architecture
Modeling the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architectures
Identifying the need for an impact analysis and feasibility study
Examining the decision package for the TO-BE enterprise architecture
Customer Value Analysis
Performing customer value analysis
Using customer value analysis to improve the enterprise architecture
Process Management
Recognizing components of a process improvement project plan
Examining the decision package for new processes
IT Architecture
Recognize the components of the IT architecture project plan
Ensuring the IT architecture supports the enterprise architecture
Examining the decision package for the TO-BE IT architecture
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Ensuring SOA supports the enterprise architecture
Defining requirements for SOA
Portfolio Management
Selecting projects to implement the TO-BE enterprise architecture Ensuring projects support the business strategy
Comments
Ace RecommendationsUndergraduate 2 credit hoursCourse PDUs21.0Course CEUs2.1Course CDUs21.0 BABOK V2.0 used in the CDU approval of this course