BUSINESS ARCHITECTS: Aligning Execution with Strategy

The fastest growing new career field offers practitioners the ability to influence and build enterprise success
By: Institute for Professional Development
 
SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Jan. 17, 2014 - PRLog -- Business architecture is a strategic business practice fostering alignment of business capabilities with enterprise purpose through continuous improvement, business transformation and business innovation initiatives. Architects work as change agents with senior business stakeholders, and play a key role in focusing strategic vision on the goals of the overall organization.

The impact of this growing occupation is dramatically changing the way IT and business units interact with highly positive results. Business analysts, enterprise architects, business architects who have not been schooled in the tools and techniques which have been developed now have the opportunity to find out about them as well as how to develop an architecture practice within or without the enterprise.

Metropolitan State University  has partnered with consultants and representative of leading corporations affiliated with the Twin Cities Business Architect Forum to develop a university-level certificate program designed to improve professional practice and further establish business architecture as a distinct, value-added business discipline—a program believed to be the first in the nation.

This innovative discipline has found its way into many of the Fortune 500 Companies operating in Minnesota including Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, Express-Scripts, Thrivent, and Target.  The high level of corporate adoption has spawned one of the largest regional professional associations of business architects in the world: The Twin Cities Business Architecture Forum.  Forum leaders invited Metropolitan State University to become its educational sponsor, resulting the 80-hour certificate program.

The program covers foundation principles and offers a “practitioner’s toolbox” of methods and skills used to help companies improve bottom line results by more effectively aligning people, processes, and technology with business purpose and strategy.

The next offering, delivered by practitioners for practitioners, begins February 10, 2014. Further information on the course content, timing, locale and more can be found at www.metrostateipd.org

Contact
Sharon Boerbon Hanson
***@metrostate.edu
612-659-7227
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Tags:Business Analyst, Business Architect, Enterprise Architect, Business Solutions, Information Tech
Industry:Business, Technology
Location:Saint Paul - Minnesota - United States
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