Enterprise architects are often asked to prioritize initiatives and projects. To complete this task, they need their organization’s strategies, goals, tactics and objectives. Too often, these can be very difficult to gather either because architects have never been aware that they existed or sometimes because they simply and plainly don’t exist.
To extrapolate these strategies and objectives, there are numerous business models that are being used for business design. We’ll examine eight of the most common business design methodologies and examine how each one of them can relate enterprise architecture.
As shown in Figure 1 below, the balanced scorecards, value chain, Hoshin Kanri, business model canvas, and the business motivation model are very useful to describe and understand an organization at the corporate and business levels. The business model canvas, and the business motivation model as well as the design thinking, customer journey map and simple SWOT analysis can be very useful at the product and marketing level. As for the design thinking framework, the customer journey map approach and SWOT analysis, they are ordinarily used at the initiative or project level.
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Source: IT Strategy