Readings for Business Architects

In this lecture we will address the topic of business strategic analysis, a very important stage of strategic planning. To do this we will start with a global vision of what a business analysis technique means and then we will go through fifteen of the best-known techniques, from a very practical and uniform perspective.

This is a new version of the second reading for business architects and addresses a topic that is fundamental to our work: the business model. Creating such a model, or at least a part of it, is the first task of any architecture project, since it identifies and describes the way in which a company produces and delivers value to its clients. To do this, we must determine to whom it delivers value (actors), what that value is (business object), how it delivers the value (service portfolio), how the value is created and flows between the different components (business structure), among other aspects.

This is a new version of the second reading for business architects and addresses a topic that is fundamental to our work: the business model. Creating such a model, or at least a part of it, is the first task of any architecture project, since it identifies and describes the way in which a company produces and delivers value to its clients. To do this, we must determine to whom it delivers value (actors), what that value is (business object), how it delivers the value (service portfolio), how the value is created and flows between the different components (business structure), among other aspects.

In this lecture we will start from a general overview of models, to quickly focus on business models. We will devote a good deal of space to the conceptual models that we find there, which are of particular interest to business architects, since conceptualizing a domain (creating the conceptual model of a domain) is one of our fundamental working tools.

In this lecture we will address the topic of business strategic analysis, a very important stage of strategic planning. To do this we will start with a global vision of what a business analysis technique means and then we will go through fifteen of the best-known techniques, from a very practical and uniform perspective.