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- Business Architecture
- A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands, expressed through integrated views and mappings.
- Value Stream
- An end-to-end collection of activities that create value for a customer or stakeholder, triggered by a value item and ending when that value item is delivered.
- Capability
- The ability of the business to do something, described as a stable business ability independent of organization structure, process, or technology.
- Capability Map
- A hierarchical decomposition of business abilities (Level 1, 2, 3) that describes what the business does, not how, who, or when it does it.
- Value Stream Stage
- A discrete step in a value stream named with a verb-noun phrase, with entry and exit criteria and the capabilities that enable it.
- Heat Map
- A visual overlay that applies a dimension such as maturity, risk, investment, or performance to a capability or value stream map to support prioritization.
- Information Map
- A business-facing view of business objects, information concepts, and their relationships, linked to capabilities and value streams to show information needs.
- Organization Map
- A view of business units, teams, and their reporting relationships, mapped to capabilities to reveal ownership and gaps.
- Strategy Mapping
- The linkage of business architecture to strategy through value propositions, business models, and strategic objectives, showing which capabilities are strategic priorities.
- Initiative Mapping
- The linkage of initiatives to the capabilities and value streams they change, enabling impact analysis, dependency analysis, and portfolio prioritization.
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Identification of stakeholder groups, the decisions they make, and the views they need, which drives which business architecture artifacts are produced.
- Business Architecture Governance
- The rules and roles that define how artifacts are created, reviewed, approved, versioned, published, and refreshed to maintain trust and accuracy.
- Capability-Based Planning
- A planning approach that uses the capability map as the organizing structure for prioritizing investments and initiatives across the enterprise.
- Value Stream-Based Planning
- A planning approach that uses value streams to prioritize improvements that directly affect customer or stakeholder value delivery.
- Business Architecture View
- A representation of one or more artifacts tailored to a specific stakeholder concern; multiple views can be generated from the same underlying model.
- Cross-Mapping
- Linking business architecture artifacts through relationships such as capability-to-value-stream or capability-to-organization, rather than duplicating content in each view.
- Impact Analysis
- The use of business architecture mappings to determine which capabilities, information, organizations, and initiatives are affected by a proposed change.
- Business Model Canvas
- A strategic view of customers, value propositions, channels, and revenue and cost structures that connects strategy to business architecture.
- Operating Model
- The definition of how an organization delivers value, described through business architecture views of capabilities, value streams, information, and organization.
- Business Architecture Maturity
- The progression from ad hoc diagrams to standardized frameworks, integrated enterprise-wide architecture, and strategy-driven decision support.
- Business Architecture Repository
- A store that holds business architecture artifacts and supports many-to-many relationships and queries across capabilities, value streams, information, organization, and initiatives.
- Business Architecture Blueprint
- A set of integrated views (capability, value, information, organization) plus mappings, rather than a single diagram.
- Capability Decomposition
- The hierarchical breakdown of a capability into Level 2 and Level 3 abilities, performed only when needed for mapping or heat-mapping.
- Value Item
- The tangible or intangible output that a value stream delivers to a stakeholder, which triggers the value stream and defines its end.
- Business Architecture Framework
- A structured set of domains, artifacts, and mappings that provides a common language for describing the business, such as the BIZBOK® Guide framework.
- Artifact Ownership
- The assignment of a named owner responsible for the accuracy, currency, and refresh of a specific business architecture artifact.
- Business Architecture Metric
- A measure of business architecture effectiveness such as artifact coverage, mapping completeness, refresh timeliness, usage in decisions, and measurable impact.
- Capability Heat Map
- A capability map overlaid with a color-coded dimension (for example red, amber, green) to show performance, maturity, or risk, with an explicit legend.
- Business Architecture Principle
- A guiding rule such as describe what not how, keep artifacts stable and reusable, map relationships, govern artifacts, and use artifacts to support decisions.
- Strategy-to-Capability Mapping
- A mapping that links strategic objectives to the capabilities required to achieve them, showing which capabilities are strategic priorities.
- Capability-to-Value-Stream Mapping
- A mapping that shows which capabilities enable which value stream stages, revealing gaps and orphan capabilities or stages.
- Business Architecture Stakeholder
- A person or group such as executives, business unit leaders, IT leaders, risk and compliance, or initiative owners who consumes business architecture views to make decisions.