Unlock exceptional value with EA Learning’s Business Architecture Bundle – which includes TOGAF® Business Architecture Foundation and Applied Business Architecture Virtual Classroom classes.
Unlock the full potential of your architecture skills with TOGAF® Business Architecture – Foundation Virtual Classroom PLUS Applied Business Architecture Virtual Classroom all-in-one value bundle. Gain practical knowledge and industry-recognised qualifications to advance your career. Click ‘Purchase Bundle’ to purchase, and an EA Learning representative will assist you in securing your place on your preferred class dates from the schedule below.
| August | September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June | July |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| August | September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June | July |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Our classes for this course are coming soon. Please use the join waitlist button to get notified.
Uplift your team’s capability through exclusive, in-house classes that embed your unique organisational context into class discussions, all while unlocking significant cost savings as you scale your training.
Our fully accredited, instructor-led training equips professionals and organisations with the core knowledge required to understand how to apply TOGAF® Business Architecture methodology.
Delivered by expert instructors, the course provides practical insight into how business architecture supports organisational structure, value delivery and operational alignment.
This course introduces key concepts, terminology, and techniques, enabling you to understand how business architecture can be used to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
EA Learning’s exclusive combination of world-class instructors and immersive learning activities, powered by digital Miro boards, provide a collaborative way to reinforce learning. This approach best supports you to understand abstract concepts and real-world application, empowering you to work with business architecture artefacts and contribute effectively in enterprise environments.
By the end of this course, you will be prepared to pass the certification exam and earn the TOGAF® Business Architecture Foundation credential, validating your ability to support business architecture practices and organisational change.
TOGAF® is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Applied Business Architecture, Version 8 is a highly practical, three-day course designed to help professionals translate strategy into execution using proven business architecture techniques. Aligned with TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition and endorsed by the IIBA, this course combines globally recognised frameworks with real-world application.
Through a blend of expert-led instruction, interactive exercises and a dynamic case study, you’ll gain hands-on experience using tools such as business capability models, value streams, and business model canvases. With over 30 structured activities, including collaborative digital Miro whiteboards, you’ll actively apply concepts to realistic business scenarios, building skills you can immediately use at your organisation.
This course is ideal for architects, business analysts, transformation leaders, executives, and consultants looking to improve strategic alignment and delivery. You will learn how to assess organisational capabilities, develop actionable roadmaps and communicate strategic insights effectively to stakeholders and executive leadership.
By the end of the three-day course, you will be equipped to drive transformation, optimise performance and confidently apply business architecture practices to achieve measurable business outcomes.
Developed by The Open Group, the TOGAF® Business Architecture approach, part of the TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, is a globally recognised methodology for aligning business strategy, capabilities and value delivery. After completing the two-day course, you will be empowered to:
The Applied Business Architecture course is a practical, industry-recognised approach to bridging the gap between business strategy and execution. EA Learning helps organisations turn these concepts into real-world outcomes. After completing this three-day course, you will be empowered to:
We specialise in partnering with organisations to build the confidence, competence and credibility needed to use architecture as a powerful enabler of business transformation through private training (classes held exclusively for your organisation) and regularly scheduled public classes.
Our specialist team takes the time to understand your organisation, covering your challenges, strategic priorities, capability gaps and where you are in your EA journey. From there, we prescribe training solutions that deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes.
Unlock significant savings as you scale training across your organisation, whether you register learners for public or private classes or a combination both.
For over 15 years, EA Learning has delivered The Open Group® accredited training courses to leading organisations to empower teams, build capability, drive transformation and achieve lasting impact.
We’ve worked with Fortune 500 tech companies, Big 4 consultancies, government agencies, major banks and IT companies.
EA Learning offers industry-leading training and certifications for enterprise, business and IT architects, and business transformation professionals.
Renowned for delivering consistently high quality learning experiences developed by industry experts, EA Learning has earned a strong reputation for excellence, with a 98% satisfaction rating across our courses.
Our expert instructors are industry leaders who bring extensive experience to every class, turning complex theory into practical, engaging learning.
Through rich anecdotes and industry-relevant examples, they deliver dynamic, impactful classes that build clarity and confidence, enabling you to immediately apply the skills you’ve developed.
Our classes feature exclusive, EA Learning-designed Miro boards that reinforce key concepts while facilitating deep collaboration and complex problem-solving.
These aren’t just whiteboards, they are custom-built, digital spaces with immersive activities that help you bridge the gap between abstract concepts and implementation.
With instructors across the world, we offer virtual and in-person courses across various time zones to suit your schedule.
We specialise in working with organisations to create training packages, combining the potential to unlock huge savings with confidential, contextualised discussions reflect your organisational reality. Find out more.
Day One and Two
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Creation 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TOGAF® Business Architecture Foundation Exam Details
Pearson Vue is recognised as the authorised provider for TOGAF, IT4IT, and ArchiMate certification exams, operating globally through an extensive network of test centers.
This course includes a practice TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation exam, complete with answers to aid students in preparing for the official Foundation exam.
Participants will also benefit from a FREE exam voucher and a complimentary resit of the exam if they fail their exam on their first attempt. Terms and conditions apply.
TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation exam
There is no exam for Applied Business Architecture. Once you’ve completed the course, you will be awarded a Certificate of Course Completion. 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.
Our world-class expert instructors are industry leaders with extensive real-world experience. Known for their dynamic delivery and genuine passion, they transform complex theory into engaging classes through rich anecdotes and practical examples drawn from years in the field.
A highly accomplished global Enterprise Architect and one of fewer than 50 ITIL Masters worldwide, Ahmad has 20+ years of experience transforming IT organisations. He specialises in integrating frameworks like the TOGAF® standard to drive digital success. Students value his ability to make technical standards accessible, actionable, and highly relevant.
Alan is an Enterprise Architect has specialises in governance, privacy, information strategy and GDPR for over 25 years. Having trained 2,000+ practitioners globally, he blends deep and practical expertise in the TOGAF® framework and Applied Operating Models with real-world insights and experience. Alan’s engaging, experience-driven approach transforms complex frameworks into actionable strategic advantages.
We're currently working on this text. Please check back later.
Karl brings 30 years of IT experience and two decades of specialist training to the classroom. Having held senior roles at IBM and major Australian banks, he is an expert in Enterprise Architecture and tooling. Karl translates complex ArchiMate® and TOGAF® concepts through structured, practical teaching and real-world analogies.
With over 25 years of experience managing complex organisational change, Leigh is a specialist in the TOGAF® Standard and Agile frameworks with a deep understanding of the implementing change from both business and customer perspectives. A pragmatic facilitator across government and commercial sectors, Leigh uses his experience to provide practical insight for delivering results.Â
Mark is an expert in IT transformation and Enterprise Architecture with over 30 years of experience. A specialist in the TOGAF® framework and Business Architecture, he excels at translating complex frameworks into practical, results-driven solutions. Mark’s approach empowers global professionals to bridge the gap between theory and measurable business value.Â
With a career spanning over 30 years across government, banking, and communications, Neville is an expert in strategy execution and operational excellence. A specialist in delivering TOGAF® training, he excels at breaking down complex architectures into logical, actionable skills. Neville’s systemic, experience-driven style ensures learners deliver sustainable, high-impact business value.Â
Take the first step to certification by registering yourself or your organisation for an upcoming public class.
Get in touch with one of our experts to find out more about the course and learn how we can meet your organisation’s requirements.
