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Introduction to Business Architecture and BPM Essentials

A one-day introductory course on the concepts, features and benefits of business architecture and business process management methods. This course is a must for anyone involved in business transformation and change, especially senior business managers and leaders, and business transformation professionals.

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Partner with EA Learning to build capability at scale.

As trusted global partners in advancing organisational architecture capability, we help organisations train entire teams through flexible delivery options, volume discounts, and dedicated account management.

Partner with EA Learning to build the skills your organisation needs to drive successful transformation.

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Partner with EA Learning to build capability at scale.

As trusted global partners in advancing organisational architecture capability, we help organisations train entire teams through flexible delivery options, volume discounts, and dedicated account management.

We can provide guidance and help you choose an option to build the skills your organisation needs to drive successful transformation.

Discounted Training for Teams and Organisations

At EA Learning, we’re committed to supporting your team’s training needs and helping you maximise your budget. Here are a few ways we can assist:

  • Arrange a private course exclusively for your team with group pricing.
  • Save on training costs with exclusive bulk pricing discounts when you prepay for multiple courses or places on classes.
  • Get special discounted pricing when you prepay at a tiered level, allowing you to draw down on your balance for any course. Ideal for organisations looking to maximise their training budgets and invest in ongoing professional development.

Course Overview

Description

Join our one-day introductory course to learn the essentials of Business Architecture and Business Process Management!

This course is a must for anyone involved in business transformation and change, especially senior business managers and leaders, and business transformation professionals, including those with experience in Business Architecture ranging from beginner to advanced.

In this short course we will introduce you to the tools you need for practically aligning businesses to their strategies and achieving their business goals. You will learn about the concepts, features and methods of Business Architecture and Business Process Management and how they can combine to drive transformational change and optimise efficiency and ROIs.

You will cover how Business Architecture methods:

  • Assist you to identify where effort and investment is currently skewed and where IT does and does not support the business well.
  • Help in understanding how the business’s goals and strategy can be translated into work packages to provide a realistic and executable roadmap for transformation.
  • Assist in identifying and managing risks and making better informed decisions.

You will then cover how Business Process Management can build and strengthen business capabilities through mapping, optimising and improving business processes across the enterprise in order to achieve and sustain the enterprise strategy.

Who is this course aimed at?

This course is for anyone seeking to assist businesses in achieving their strategic goals and optimising business performance, including:

  • Business leaders, executives, and senior business managers responsible for driving improvement and change, including managers, leaders and directors of: business transformation and change; business performance improvement; and business process innovation.
  • Professionals working in areas such as business planning and strategy.
  • Seasoned enterprise and business architects who need an awareness and understanding of best practice methods in their fields.
  • Program and project managers, change managers, business analysts, solution architects, technical designers, business process owners, managers and architects, and other professionals and consultants seeking to advance their career in the field of business transformation.
  • Organisations seeking better ways of realising their business strategies and goals.

Why should you take this course?

  • This course introduces the key concepts business leaders and transformation professionals need to enable organisations to successfully operationalise their business strategies and achieve their goals.
  • You will leave this course confident that you are much better equipped to assist businesses in achieving their strategic goals and to advance your own career as a business leader, manager, or business transformation professional.
  • EA Learning’s mission is to provide industry leading training and certifications to business leaders and managers, architects and business transformation professionals that allow them to drive their career development and be more effective in their roles.
  • It is presented by highly experienced practitioners in this field. They bring real-world insights and experience into the classroom to contextualise and enhance the Learning experience. Short exercises reinforce key elements.
  • At EA Learning we are focused solely on Business and IT Transformation and Architecture. We don’t provide generalist training; we just teach the disciplines in which we have genuine expertise. Our goal is for every attendee to walk away at the end of a training course with a set of tools, techniques, and approaches that they can put into practice in their role.
  • We work with organisations, business leaders and practitioners around the world, across all industries to help uplift Architecture and Business Transformation.

What's Included?

  • All course materials
  • Course presentation slide deck
  • Case study
  • Summary reference cards
  • Certificate of Course Completion
  • Interactive activities via exclusive Miro whiteboards
  • Real-world practical examples
  • World-class expert instructor

EA Learning is Trusted by Leading Organisations Globally

KPMG
Capgemini
NSW Community & Justice
Commonwealth Bank
CityOfGoldcoast
HCF
Westpac
CSIRO
NSW Police
Salesforce
Charter Hall
Brisbane Airport
Hydro Tasmania
Albury City
AMP
Australian Retirement Trust
Tas Government
Data3
Fujitsu
NTT
SAP
Just Web Ops
CIOco
Accenture
ACT Government
Munro Footwear Group
QUT
Queensland Government Health
Standard Process
Suncorp
Swinburne
VLine
TAC
Parks VIC
DOH
ACQ
Aurora
UNSW
SydWater
RBA
NDIA
McGrath
UWA
Club Marine
BSP
WA Housing
WesternPower
WyndhamCity
MainRoadsWA
URA
CAA
Defence Bank
Fremantle Ports
QLD DTMR

Learning Outcomes

You will leave this course with a practical understanding of key concepts including:

  1. The major features and elements of Business Architecture and Business Modelling and the value they can deliver
  2. Capability Based Planning with Business Capability Models and how they can be used to identify and prioritise areas of change and to guide transition planning and execution
  3. Key features of Business Process Management and Modelling and how they can be applied to enable capability improvement, operational efficiency, and strategic change.

Benefits

Organisations

  • Strategy execution: Bridge the gap between business strategy and delivery through capability-based planning, roadmap development, and evidence-based decision-making.
  • Business alignment: Create a shared view of capabilities, value creation, and strategic priorities to align stakeholders across the organisation.
  • Smarter investment decisions: Identify where effort, funding, and resources are over- or under-invested to maximise business value and outcomes.
  • Capability improvement: Assess current and target states, uncover capability gaps, and prioritise initiatives that deliver the greatest strategic impact.
  • Transformation readiness: Understand organisational strengths, weaknesses, risks, and dependencies to support successful business change and transformation.
  • Operational transparency: Establish a common business language and holistic view of the organisation to improve governance, communication, and decision-making.

Professionals / Individuals

  • Strategic thinking: Understand how Business Architecture connects organisational vision, strategy, capabilities, and execution.
  • Practical modelling skills: Learn to apply Business Motivation Models, Business Model Canvases, Value Mapping, and Capability Models to real-world scenarios.
  • Enhanced decision-making: Use capability analysis, overlays, and strategic assessment techniques to support evidence-based recommendations.
  • Stakeholder influence: Communicate complex business concepts using visual models that improve alignment and engagement.
  • Transformation expertise: Build the skills to assess current and future states, identify gaps, and support business transformation initiatives.
  • Broader business perspective: Develop a holistic understanding of how organisations create value, deliver outcomes, and achieve strategic goals.

Team and Enterprise Training

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.

Packages designed for your organisation.

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.

Contextualised private classes.

Beyond standard team training, our private classes feature contextualised discussions in a confidential setting, with a pre-class consultation to align on your organisation’s goals, challenges and projects, ensuring discussions and examples are relevant.

Huge potential to unlock savings.

Unlock significant savings as you scale training across your organisation, whether you register learners for public or private classes or a combination both.

Why EA Learning?

Trusted by leading organisations globally.

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.

We’re specialists, not generalists.

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.

World-class instructors with real-world experience.

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.

Beyond theory with immersive workboards

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.

Private and public classes worldwide.

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.

Syllabus

Syllabus

Session 1

  • Business Architecture definition
  • The value of Business Architecture
  • Business Architecture Component and interface with IT
  • Strategy and the execution gap
  • Business Modelling
  • Value Mapping

Session 2

  • Capability Planning with Business Capability Modelling
  • Strategic Overlays
  • Transition Planning, Roadmaps and execution
  • Relationship of Business Architecture to Business Process Management
  • Communication of an Organisations strategic intent
  • Prioritisation and roadmap for Business Process Management

Session 3

  • Introducing BPM
  • Definitions
  • Need for BPM
  • Benefits of BPM
  • BPM Lifecycle
  • Considering other lifecycles

Session 4

  • Business Process Modelling
  • Process Categorisation
  • Process Levelling
  • Describing Processes
  • Overview of Business Process Management Notation [BPMN]

Session 5

  • Roles within BPM
  • Setting up the BPM Centre of Excellence/Practice
  • Success markers for BPM

Exams

There is no exam for this course. A certificate of Accomplishment will be issued 1 day after the course is completed.

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