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Architecture-Driven Business Transformation
by Lawrence, C.
| Our Price: | $30.00 |
| Reference #: |
IGR3074 |
| Pages: |
207-220 |
| Source: |
Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice |
| Copyright: |
2007; Information Science Reference |
| Author Affiliations: |
Old Mutual South Africa, South Africa |
| Editor: |
P. Saha |
| Keywords: |
Accounting, Administrative Data Processing, Business Applications, Business Process Diagram, Business Process Integration, Business Process Management, Business Process Redesign, Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Transformation, business rule, Business rules, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Data Model, Data Modeling, Data Models, diagnostic, Enterprise Architecture, Entity Relationship, Entity-Relationship Model, Financial Services Industry, integration, Meta Model, meta-model, Metamodels, Office Productivity, process, Process architecture, Process design, Process Engineering, Process Model, Process Reengineering, Process View, Prototyping, Public Sector, Relational Data Structure, Relational Database, Relational Model, Service Industry, Subprocess, System Architecture, Systems Architecture, Systems Design, task, transformation, Work Flow, Workflow, Workflow Diagram |
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Abstract
Enterprise architecture (EA) has primarily a business focus, but it involves the kind of systems thinking typically associated with information technology (IT). Any one of its component architectures could theoretically drive a business transformation. The example of process architecture is chosen because of its implications for other architectural domains; because of the link between customer-centricity and process-centricity; and because inherited attitudes to process desperately need overhaul. An imagined diagnostic in a financial services company provides context. The diagnostic recommends a holistic alternative to current approaches to process. It articulates an explicit logical meta-model from which it draws out a number of key concepts implementable as generic physical constructs. The resulting process architecture can drive radical business transformation given the right program management, governance, and, above all, sponsorship.
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