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Applied Business Architecture

The Applied Business Architecture course is an immersive three-day program designed for professionals aiming to bridge the gap between business strategy and execution. This industry-recognised course, endorsed by the IIBA and aligned with TOGAF® 10th Edition, equips participants with the practical skills and frameworks to navigate complex organisational challenges effectively.

Duration: 3 days
Instructor-led
Endorsed by IIBA®

Course Overview

  • Course duration: 3 days
  • Endorsed by IIBA®
  • Eligible for 24 PD Hours / CDUs
  • 30+ activities and exercises
  • Collaborative activities powered by Miro
  • Highly experienced instructors
  • Certificate of attendance

Delivered in virtual or in-person formats, this course incorporates over 30 interactive activities and a case study approach, providing hands-on experience in applying business architecture tools and methodologies. Participants learn how to integrate business models, value streams, and capability mapping to drive measurable outcomes.

Why Choose the Virtual Applied Business Architecture Course?

  • Proven Expertise: Trusted by leading banks, government organisations, and Fortune 500 companies, we are a global leader in professional training, with nearly 2 decades of excellence in enterprise architecture education.
  • Industry-Validated Curriculum: Our Applied Business Architecture course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), ensuring globally recognised certification that adds credibility and value to your role.
  • Expert Instructors: Learn from industry practitioners who combine deep expertise with real-world insights to bring concepts to life​.
  • Flexible Delivery Options: Choose from virtual, in-person, public, or private classes tailored to suit individual and team needs​.

Benefits to Your Organisation

Equip your team with actionable business architecture expertise that drives transformation and efficiency:

  • Strategic Alignment: Enable seamless integration of business strategy with operational processes.
  • Enhanced Decision-Making: Deliver insights for better resource allocation and capability investment.
  • Operational Efficiency: Reduce complexity, optimise workflows, and boost productivity.
  • Scalable Impact: Achieve measurable outcomes that scale across business units and stakeholders.

Benefits to You

Successful completion of this course demonstrates mastery of industry-standard methodologies and ensures that you can:

  • Lead business transformation initiatives confidently.
  • Leverage TOGAF® and IIBA-endorsed frameworks to design practical, scalable solutions.
  • Enhance your career prospects with a credential recognised worldwide.

Why Choose the Virtual Applied Business Architecture Course?

1. Practical, Real-World Applications

This course is designed to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, giving you the tools to apply business architecture frameworks directly to your workplace. You’ll learn the latest industry practices aligned with TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, combined with techniques endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®). EA Learning’s emphasis on practical skills ensures you’re prepared to make an immediate impact within your organisation.

2. Expert-Led Training by Industry Leaders

EA Learning is a trusted training provider for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global banks. Our instructors bring vast industry expertise and real-world experience to every session, ensuring that the knowledge you gain is not just theoretical but directly applicable. With a focus on interactive learning, our instructors guide you through engaging activities that reinforce your understanding of business architecture.

3. Enhanced Interactivity with Over 30 Hands-On Activities and Exercises

With more than 30 carefully curated activities and exercises, participants will engage in a dynamic learning process. These exercises are thoughtfully structured to include both individual tasks and collaborative group work, ensuring a comprehensive and interactive experience that caters to diverse learning styles.

4. Miro Whiteboards

Dive into real-time collaboration on business architecture activities throughout the course with our innovative Miro whiteboard exercises. Engage in hands-on learning that mirrors real-world challenges using a dynamic case study. Collaborate with peers to brainstorm, strategise, and visualise solutions while working on practical activities such as creating a Stakeholder Map, designing a Business Canvas, and mapping out a Value Network for the organisation in focus. Build and refine a Business Capability Model, and conduct a Strategic Analysis using Business Capability Overlays. These interactive activities bring theory to life, ensuring you develop actionable insights and practical skills.

5.  Endorsed By IIBA® For Quality and Relevance

Endorsed by the IIBA®, this course equips you with internationally recognised credentials that enhance your professional profile. Whether you’re looking to advance your career or strengthen your organisation’s business architecture capabilities, this course provides the knowledge and recognition you need to stay ahead in a competitive market.

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6. Premium Learning Environment

The online format allows participants to complete this course from anywhere in the world (with a reliable internet connection), in a timezone that is convenient to you. See the course schedule and note that our virtual classes run from 9am to 5pm in the specified time zone.

For those who prefer face-to-face learning, our Applied Business Architecture – Classroom course provides the same high-quality experience in a physical classroom setting.

Looking to upskill your team in Business Architecture? We offer exclusive corporate training at your chosen in-house venue. Enquire with us today!

Ready to drive measurable impact in your organisation? Download the brochure from the top of the page or read the syllabus today to explore how the Applied Business Architecture course can transform your approach to strategy and execution.


Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this Applied Business Architecture course, participants will be able to:

  1. Develop and implement business capability models and strategic road maps.
  2. Align organisational capabilities with strategic goals using capability-based planning.
  3. Engage effectively with stakeholders to drive organisational change.
  4. Conduct comprehensive business value assessments tied to strategy.
  5. Present strategic narratives and visual artefacts to executive leadership.

 

This course prepares you to apply business architecture techniques that enhance organisational performance and drive transformational change.

Day One: Foundations of Business Architecture

Day One equips participants with foundational knowledge and practical frameworks, setting a strong base for advanced applications in business architecture over the course’s next phases.

Welcome

Participants are introduced to the course structure, objectives, and expectations. This session establishes a collaborative learning environment, ensuring participants are comfortable and aligned with the course’s practical, hands-on approach. It sets the stage for active participation and engagement throughout the program.

The Next Generation Business Architect

Explore the evolving role of business architects in driving organisational transformation and competitive differentiation. Participants learn about key meta-skills like systems thinking, ambiguity tolerance, and human-centred approaches essential for navigating modern business complexities. This foundation is critical for understanding how architects deliver value in dynamic environments.

Applying Business Architecture

Gain a clear understanding of what business architecture entails and its application using globally recognised frameworks such as TOGAF® and BABOK®. Participants are introduced to holistic, multi-dimensional views of organisational capabilities, value delivery, and structures. This session underscores the discipline’s role in enabling agility, innovation, and effective transformation strategies.

The Case Study

Participants are introduced to the course’s central case study, which mirrors real-world challenges faced by organisations. The scenario highlights the need for agility, differentiation, and strategic focus in a competitive landscape. This case serves as a practical anchor, ensuring participants can directly apply the concepts and techniques they learn.

Engaging Stakeholders and Eliciting Concerns

Learn techniques for identifying and addressing stakeholder concerns, ensuring alignment between business goals and architectural initiatives. This session emphasises collaborative engagement, helping participants foster trust and gain insights essential for successful project outcomes. It builds confidence in handling diverse perspectives and priorities.

Business Modelling

Discover how to articulate and evaluate an organisation’s value creation and delivery through business models. Using the Business Model Canvas, participants visualise existing operations and identify opportunities for innovation. This session sharpens analytical and strategic planning skills, enabling participants to design impactful business models.

Strategic Planning

Delve into the Business Motivation Model (BMM) and its role in linking drivers, strategies, goals, and tactics. This session enables participants to document and analyse strategic contexts systematically, facilitating better alignment between business objectives and execution plans. By mastering these tools, participants are equipped to create actionable, strategic roadmaps for their organisations.

Day Two: Value Systems and Capability Mapping

Day Two empowers participants with a deeper understanding of value creation and capability alignment, preparing them to lead strategic initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Value Systems

Dive into the concept of value systems, including value disciplines, chains, streams, and networks. Participants explore how to define and analyse the value exchange between organisations and stakeholders, using frameworks like Porter’s Value Chain and Value Stream Mapping. This session equips participants to identify, align, and optimise value-adding activities, ensuring their organisations deliver stakeholder-centric solutions effectively and efficiently.

Capability-Based Planning

Learn how to structure strategic planning around core business capabilities. This session focuses on combining business-led and enterprise-wide perspectives to develop actionable strategies. Participants gain tools to enhance transparency, improve decision-making, and align capabilities with organisational objectives, ensuring readiness for agile and transformative projects.

Capability Mapping and Business Capability Model

Participants build a Business Capability Model, mapping what the organisation does to achieve its strategic goals. Through iterative stakeholder engagement, participants identify core and supporting capabilities, ensuring clarity and alignment across value chains. This session helps translate strategic plans into actionable execution models, enabling participants to lead impactful organisational change.

Customer Value Perspective

Discover how to view business operations through the lens of customer value. Using tools like the Value Proposition Canvas, participants learn to identify products and services that align with customer needs and preferences. This session strengthens the ability to create value-driven business strategies, ensuring customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Strategic Analysis: Capability Maturity

Assess the maturity of organisational capabilities to determine their readiness to meet strategic goals. Participants learn to evaluate capabilities across people, processes, technology, and information dimensions, identifying gaps and prioritising improvements. This analysis enables informed decision-making and prepares organisations for incremental, significant, or transformational change.

Strategic Analysis: Pain Points

Analyse operational and strategic challenges to identify inefficiencies, risks, and constraints. Participants uncover common organisational pain points and explore solutions to mitigate them, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. This session enhances problem-solving skills and equips participants to drive meaningful improvements that support business objectives.

Day Three: Strategic Analysis and Execution

Day Three provides participants with the tools and strategies needed to transition from planning to execution, ensuring their organisations can navigate complexity, harness opportunities, and achieve sustained success.

Strategic Analysis: Projects

This session focuses on using projects as strategic tools, linking them to organisational goals through structured analysis. Participants learn to assess projects for alignment with strategy, resource constraints, and value delivery. This ensures efficient prioritisation and execution of initiatives that drive measurable outcomes.

Strategic Analysis: Industry – Market

Through frameworks like PESTLE, participants analyse external industry and market factors that impact organisational strategy. By understanding political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental dynamics, participants can better anticipate disruptions and align their strategies to changing market conditions.

Disruption and Strategic Impact

Explore the implications of market and technological disruptions using Red Ocean and Blue Ocean strategies. Participants learn to identify threats, uncover new opportunities, and craft strategies that differentiate their organisations in a competitive landscape, balancing cost and value effectively.

Strategic Importance of Capabilities

This session covers methods to assess the strategic importance of business capabilities, focusing on those critical to achieving organisational goals. Participants gain insights into prioritising capabilities that require uplift and ensuring their efforts are aligned with strategic objectives, resulting in coherent, impactful initiatives.

Strategic Analysis: Future – Maturity

Participants assess the maturity of business capabilities and their readiness to support future objectives. By applying overlays like strategic importance and maturity level, participants identify capability gaps, enabling them to plan for gradual or transformational improvements aligned with the organisation’s vision.

Target State Architecture (Business Capability Model)

Learn to define and model a Target State Architecture that encapsulates the organisation’s future state across business, information, and technology layers. This blueprint serves as a foundation for planning and tracking progress, ensuring alignment with long-term strategic goals.

Capability Uplift: Transition Planning and Roadmap

This session provides a step-by-step approach to creating a capability uplift roadmap. Participants identify priorities, align projects with strategic goals, and sequence initiatives for optimal impact. The roadmap ensures clarity and coherence in transitioning to a future-ready state.

Presenting the Findings

Learn the art of presenting architectural findings to diverse audiences, from senior stakeholders to non-technical teams. This session emphasises clarity, storytelling, and the use of visual aids to communicate complex ideas effectively, ensuring buy-in and alignment across the organisation.

Emerging Practices

Explore contemporary frameworks and approaches, blending classic business architecture with design thinking and agile methodologies. Participants learn to adapt to emerging trends, ensuring their practices remain innovative and relevant in dynamic environments.

Business Architecture and Execution

This final session ties together all concepts, focusing on the practical execution of business architecture through project portfolios and agile methodologies. Participants learn to manage initiatives dynamically, align funding and priorities with strategy, and enable enterprise agility, ensuring successful implementation of organisational goals.


Now endorsed by IIBA® (International Institute of Business Analysis™) and Eligible for PD Hours / CDUs 

Applied Business Architecture, Version 8 is endorsed by International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) and will automatically qualify for 24 PD Hours/CDUs toward IIBA® certifications. 

 

Those with the necessary work-history who are looking to sit for either the CCBA® or CBAP® exam can use the 24 hours earned from our Applied Business Architecture endorsed course toward meeting the Professional Development (PD) hour requirement. The CCBA® requires 21 PD Hours to sit for the exam, whereas the CBAP® requires 35 PD Hours. Those with an existing IIBA® certification could use the hours toward the Continuing Development Units (CDUs) needed to recertify their CCBA®, CBAP®, IIBA®-AAC, or IIBA®-CBDA. 

 

 

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What prior knowledge or experience is required for the Applied Business Architecture Virtual Classroom Course?

While no specific prerequisites are mandatory, it is beneficial to have a basic understanding of business strategy, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines. This course is designed for professionals with experience in business analysis, architecture, or strategic planning who are looking to deepen their expertise in business architecture.

How does the Applied Business Architecture course differ from other business architecture courses?

Our course is endorsed by the IIBA®, ensuring that you gain not only theoretical knowledge but also practical skills that can be directly applied to real-world challenges. This course is distinct from the TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation course, which focuses on certification, while this course is aligned with TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation and complements it by focusing on applied skills for participants to apply in their organisation.

 

This course includes over 30 hands-on activities using Miro whiteboards, making it highly interactive and focused on practical outcomes. These activities are based on a case study, which is a key benefit of this course, giving a real-world scenario to use as an example of how attendees can go back to their own workplace and implement what they have learned.

What types of case studies are used during the course?

The course features a comprehensive case study that simulates real-world business scenarios. Through the application of over 30 interactive activities, this case study is designed to cover various aspects of business architecture, including stakeholder engagement, capability mapping, and strategic analysis, providing participants with practical experience in applying the concepts learned.

How will this course help me in my current role?

This course equips you with the tools and methodologies to align your organisation’s strategy and its operations, improve stakeholder communication, and enhance decision-making processes. Whether you’re leading a transformation project or refining business strategies, the skills you gain will help you drive effective and sustainable change within your organisation.

Will I receive a certificate upon completing the course?

Yes, participants who complete the course will receive a Certificate of Attendance from EA Learning. By completing this course, participants also qualify for 24 PD Hours/CDUs from the IIBA®, contributing to your professional development and certification goals.

Can the skills learned in this course be applied to industries outside of IT?

Absolutely. The principles and techniques taught in the Applied Business Architecture course are applicable across various industries, including finance, healthcare, government, and more. The focus on aligning business strategies with operational capabilities is relevant to any sector seeking to enhance its organisational performance.

What support is available if I have questions during or after the course?

During the course, our expert instructors are available to answer any questions and provide guidance. Post-course, EA Learning offers ongoing access to course material and a student portal for additional resources to help you continue your professional development.

How is the course delivered, and what tools will I use?

The course provides a fully interactive experience allowing attendees to engage directly with the instructor and peers. It is delivered via Zoom using interactive digital tools like Miro whiteboards to facilitate collaboration and hands-on learning. You will also gain access to our Course Material portal and engage with a range of digital resources.

What is the benefit of the IIBA® endorsement for this course?

The IIBA® endorsement signifies that our course meets high standards for professional education in business analysis and architecture. It ensures that the skills and knowledge you gain are recognised and valued globally, making it easier to apply these credits towards IIBA® certifications like CCBA® or CBAP®.

How does this course help with career advancement?

By completing this course, you’ll not only enhance your technical skills but also gain a strategic perspective that is crucial for leadership roles. The knowledge gained can position you for higher-level responsibilities in business architecture, transformation leadership, and strategic planning, opening up new career opportunities.

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  • Course duration: 3 days
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  • 30+ activities and exercises
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