Establishing the Blueprint
You have a Strategic Plan and Roadmap! Now, how do you ensure all the pieces of your business are truly organized and working together?
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As your business grows, it's common for silos to emerge, even in what should be cross-functional areas. Operations might not fully understand the hand-off to Finance, Project and Product Management could be using redundant systems, and evolving organizational structures often leave roles and responsibilities outdated and unclear.
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Establishing a clear business blueprint is essential for sustainable growth, and it all starts with building the right Business Architecture!
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So what do you get out of this engagement?
Business Capability Map & Canvas
We offer a specialized service to help your organization gain crystal-clear insights through powerful tools such as a Business Capability Map & Canvas. Each will provide holistic views of your value proposition, key activities, customer segments, and efficiency gains. We will empower you to strategically align your processes and operational resources for sustainable growth.
Value Stream Maps
We partner with you to create a high-level visual representation of your end-to-end processes. Each value stream map can tie back to your business capabilities, illustrating how value is truly delivered from the initial customer engagement through to final delivery. Our approach creates a starting point for further evaluation of health and performance within the organization.
Gap Analysis & Recommendations
This crucial step in our Business Architecture service offering is designed to illuminate the path from where your organization is today to where it aspires to be. Our service provides a thorough examination of your current capabilities, high-level processes, and overall architecture against a defined target state and vision. In our time together, we will help you identify and strategically address the discrepancies that prevent you from achieving your full potential and strategic objectives.
Our Business Architecture
Approach
How do we deliver our service to you?
Explore the next steps of how we connect your strategic plan to business architecture, the next step in defining and analyzing business operations and performance. Our Business Architecture approach is tailored specifically to your needs and vision.
Discovery & Data Collection
Your strategic plan deserves an effective blueprint starting with Discovery and Data Collection. This critical step creates the foundation of Business Architecture for creating your business capability and canvas, and value stream maps. We begin by gathering essential data directly from key stakeholders, including executives, leaders, and subject matter experts, ensuring we capture diverse perspectives. Concurrently, we conduct thorough reviews of your existing documentation, such as strategic plans, organizational charts, process manuals, and technology inventories, and analyze current performance data. This collaborative approach ensures we, as a team, gain a clear understanding of your current state, setting the stage for actionable insights and defining your next strategic steps.
Define Target State & Strategic Alignment
Defining your target state and ensuring strategic alignment is paramount to future success. In this coordinated phase, we work closely with you to translate your strategic vision into a clear, actionable blueprint for the future. This involves designing key architectural components such as desired Business Capabilities, a comprehensive Business Model Canvas, and optimized Value Stream maps, all meticulously aligned with your strategic objectives. To ensure your vision is not only realized but also measurable, we establish baseline metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), enabling you to track progress and achieve high-performing outcomes.
Identify Gaps & Provide Recommendations
Our final phase of Business Architecture involves comparing the current and desired states across all architectural domains, including capabilities, people, process, technology, and information. We then identify what's missing, inefficient, redundant, or underperforming. This allows us to evaluate the business impacts and deliver prioritized, actionable recommendations for practical, value-added execution.
