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Applied Business Architecture, Version 8

The Applied Business Architecture, Version 8 course is an immersive three-day program designed for professionals aiming to bridge the gap between business strategy and execution. This industry-recognised course, endorsed by the IIBA and aligned with TOGAF® 10th Edition, equips participants with the practical skills and frameworks to navigate complex organisational challenges effectively.

Duration: 3 days
Instructor-led
Endorsed by IIBA®

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Course Overview

The EA Learning Difference

EA Learning is dedicated to empowering Enterprise, Business and IT Architects and Business Transformation professionals through industry-leading training and certification programs. We equip you and your teams with the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to excel in your roles and deliver substantial value to your organisation.

Quality and Expertise

We pride ourselves on delivering premium training experiences. Our instructors are not just presenters, they are industry leaders with real-world experience. This allows them to provide deep insights and practical examples that bring the course material to life. Our commitment to quality ensures that you receive the best possible training to achieve superior results and reach your highest potential.

Trusted by Leading Organisations

EA Learning is a trusted training provider for banks, government organisations, and some of the largest tech (Fortune 500) companies globally. With over a decade of excellence in TOGAF training, developed in close collaboration with The Open Group, we have trained thousands of professionals worldwide. Our instructors with extensive industry experience, high exam pass rates, specialised focus, and premium client experience set us apart from other training companies.

Unique Courses and Pathways

We have leveraged our expertise to create our own courses, such as the Applied Business Architecture course endorsed by the IIBA. Our strong industry relationships ensure that our training remains unique, relevant, and valuable. Additionally, we provide expert guidance to help you identify the best training pathway for your career or organisational goals.

Our Commitment

EA Learning is passionate about your success. By providing expert-led and guided training, coaching, and mentoring in Enterprise, Business and IT Architecture, Design and Transformation, we equip you with proven concepts, principles, and techniques to solve realworld problems and deliver valuable outcomes. Join us to experience the impact that premium, expert-led training can have on your career.

What We Do

Core Specialisation: We are dedicated solely to Architecture, Design and Business Transformation, offering specialised training in these disciplines backed by genuine expertise.
Preferred Training Provider by Leading Organisations World-Wide: Trusted by major banks, government organisations, and top Fortune 500 tech companies worldwide.
Expert Instructors: Learn from industry leaders with real-world experience and a proven track record in their teaching disciplines.
High Exam Pass Rates: Our comprehensive preparation ensures you are well-equipped to excel in your exams.
Premium Experience: Enjoy exclusive classes with dedicated instructors and a limited number of class participants, ensuring an engaging and focused learning environment.
Expert Created, Industry-Informed Courses: Our training programs are developed and informed by industry experts, ensuring relevant and up-to-date content.
Globally Recognised Certifications: We deliver internationally recognised certifications, helping you advance your career and validate your skills.
Extensive Class Date and Time Zone Options: Select from a wide range of class dates that suit your schedule, with options available in various time zones globally.

Course Delivery Formats

Comprehensive Training Solutions- We offer a range of training solutions designed to fit your needs:
Virtual Classroom: Participate in interactive, instructor-led online training that is exclusively designed for a virtual environment. Our dedicated instructors run these classes live, ensuring a fully immersive and engaging experience. This is our most popular format, offering high-quality education without compromise, accessible from anywhere in the world.
In-Person Classroom: Benefit from direct, face-to-face instruction in a traditional classroom setting.
Public Classes: Join scheduled classes with peers from various organisations, providing valuable networking opportunities.
Private In-House Classes: Exclusive training for groups within your organisation, featuring a comprehensive, hands-on approach with contextualised content and dedicated support from the EA Learning team.
Self-Paced eLearning: Learn at your own pace with flexible online courses.

Key Features

  • Version 8, Aligned with The Latest Edition of TOGAF® – TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition
  • Endorsed 3-Day Course by IIBA®
  • Eligible for 24 PD Hours / CDUs
  • 30+ Activities and Exercises
  • Collaborative Activities Powered by Miro
  • Expert Instructors with Real-World Experience
  • Course Material Portal Access
  • Certificate of Attendance

Delivered in virtual or in-person formats, this course incorporates over 30 interactive activities and a case study approach, providing hands-on experience in applying business architecture tools and methodologies. Participants learn how to integrate business models, value streams, and capability mapping to drive measurable outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this Applied Business Architecture course, participants will be able to:

  • Develop and implement business capability models and strategic road maps.
  • Align organisational capabilities with strategic goals using capability-based planning.
  • Engage effectively with stakeholders to drive organisational change.
  • Conduct comprehensive business value assessments tied to strategy.
  • Present strategic narratives and visual artefacts to executive leadership.

This course prepares you to apply business architecture techniques that enhance organisational performance and drive transformational change.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for professionals looking to deepen their business architecture expertise and contribute to strategic initiatives, including:

  • Enterprise Architects and Business Architects: Professionals responsible for aligning organisational strategies with architecture frameworks.
  • Business Analysts: Individuals seeking to expand their skill set in business modelling and strategic analysis.
  • Transformation Leaders: Change managers and strategists driving large-scale transformations.
  • CXOs and Senior Executives: Leaders aiming to bridge the gap between strategy and execution through effective business architecture.
  • Consultants and Advisors: Experts looking to offer valuable insights into their clients’ organisational strategies and operational alignment.

Whether you are leading transformation efforts or refining operational strategies, this course equips you with the tools to drive meaningful change.

Why Choose Applied Business Architecture, Version 8 Course?

Practical, Real-World Applications

This course is designed to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, giving you the tools to apply business architecture frameworks directly to your workplace. You’ll learn the latest industry practices aligned with TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, combined with techniques endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®). EA Learning’s emphasis on practical skills ensures you’re prepared to make an immediate impact within your organisation.

Expert-Led Training by Industry Leaders

EA Learning is a trusted training provider for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global banks. Our instructors bring vast industry expertise and real-world experience to every session, ensuring that the knowledge you gain is not just theoretical but directly applicable. With a focus on interactive learning, our instructors guide you through engaging activities that reinforce your understanding of business architecture.

Enhanced Interactivity with Over 30 Hands-On Activities and Exercises

With more than 30 carefully curated activities and exercises, participants will engage in a dynamic learning process. These exercises are thoughtfully structured to include both individual tasks and collaborative group work, ensuring a comprehensive and interactive experience that caters to diverse learning styles.

Miro Whiteboards

Dive into real-time collaboration on business architecture activities throughout the course with our innovative Miro whiteboard exercises. Engage in hands-on learning that mirrors real-world challenges using a dynamic case study. Collaborate with peers to brainstorm, strategise, and visualise solutions while working on practical activities such as creating a Stakeholder Map, designing a Business Canvas, and mapping out a Value Network for the organisation in focus. Build and refine a Business Capability Model, and conduct a Strategic Analysis using Business Capability Overlays. These interactive activities bring theory to life, ensuring you develop actionable insights and practical skills.

Endorsed By IIBA® For Quality and Relevance

Endorsed by the IIBA®, this course equips you with internationally recognised credentials that enhance your professional profile. Whether you’re looking to advance your career or strengthen your organisation’s business architecture capabilities, this course provides the knowledge and recognition you need to stay ahead in a competitive market.

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Premium Learning Environment

The online format allows participants to complete this course from anywhere in the world (with a reliable internet connection), in a timezone that is convenient to you. See the course schedule and note that our virtual classes run from 9am to 5pm in the specified time zone.

For those who prefer face-to-face learning, our Applied Business Architecture – Classroom course provides the same high-quality experience in a physical classroom setting.

Looking to upskill your team in Business Architecture? We offer exclusive corporate training at your chosen in-house venue. Enquire with us today!

Ready to drive measurable impact in your organisation? Download the brochure from the top of the page or read the syllabus today to explore how the Applied Business Architecture course can transform your approach to strategy and execution.

Why Choose the Virtual Applied Business Architecture Course?

  • Proven Expertise: Trusted by leading banks, government organisations, and Fortune 500 companies, we are a global leader in professional training, with nearly 2 decades of excellence in enterprise architecture education.
  • Industry-Validated Curriculum: Our Applied Business Architecture course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), ensuring globally recognised certification that adds credibility and value to your role.
  • Expert Instructors: Learn from industry practitioners who combine deep expertise with real-world insights to bring concepts to life​.
  • Flexible Delivery Options: Choose from virtual, in-person, public, or private classes tailored to suit individual and team needs​.

Visionary Business Leaders
Ideal for CXOs, strategists, planners, and department heads. This course is designed for those at the helm of their organisations, seeking to drive innovation and steer their businesses towards success.

Learn how to:

  • Develop a Strategic Roadmap: Craft a clear and structured roadmap to guide your business in achieving its strategic objectives and goals.
  • Optimise Investment Strategies: Strategically allocate resources to maximise impact, while also identifying and reducing areas of excessive expenditure.
  • Leverage Capabilities for Opportunities: Seek out and utilise both current and emerging strengths and competencies to enhance business growth.
  • Address and Resolve Challenges: Identify obstacles hindering strategic success and devise effective solutions to overcome them.
  • Streamline Operations for Efficiency: Identify and eliminate redundant processes, focusing on simplifying, rationalising, and enhancing overall performance.


Champions of Transformation
Tailored for chief architects, enterprise architects, program architects, program managers, and change managers. It’s perfect for those leading the charge in transforming their organisations, equipping them with the tools to effectively manage and execute large-scale changes.

In addition to the topics covered above, you will also learn to:

  • Evaluate Business Capability Alignment: Assess the alignment and effectiveness of your business’s current capabilities in achieving its strategic objectives and executing its plans
  • Identify Capability Enhancements: Ascertain and evaluate required improvements in your business’s skills, processes, information systems, and technology to support and achieve its strategic goals and objectives.
  • Analyse Interdependencies for Transformation: Map and analyse the interdependencies essential for designing and optimising your transformation roadmap.
  • Align Transformation with Business Goals: Maintain alignment of your transformation program with your business’s strategies, goals, plans and objectives using a comprehensive framework for tracking, evaluating, guiding, governing and managing it.
  • Assess Strategic Impact of Challenges: Evaluate the broader strategic implications of significant obstacles and problematic projects.
  • Adapt Transformation Roadmap Dynamically: Regularly adjust and fine-tune your transformation roadmap to effectively respond to challenges and evolving circumstances.


Innovative Change Makers and Builders
Suited for the creative and hands-on professionals including business, solution, and IT architects, analysts, designers, engineers, project managers, change coordinators, specialists, and subject matter experts. This course will empower those who are actively shaping and implementing the future of their organisations.

In addition to the topics covered above, you will also learn to:

  • Improve Project Planning and Coordination: Streamline your project management by identifying and analysing the interdependencies between your project and concurrent initiatives, enabling better foresight and issue resolution.


Efficient Operations Managers
Ideal for those managing the day-to-day operations, seeking to enhance their strategic planning and execution skills to improve organisational efficiency and effectiveness.

In addition to the topics covered above, you will also learn to:

  • Identify and Analyse Systemic Operational Issues: Conduct a thorough examination of your operating model to pinpoint systemic problems and understand their root causes


Sales and Pre-Sales Experts
A valuable resource for consultants, advisors, and professionals in sales and pre-sales roles. This course provides deep insights into business architecture, enabling them to better understand client needs and offer tailored, strategic solutions.

In addition to the topics covered above, you will also learn to:

  • Highlight and Advocate for Solution Value: Focus on recognising and effectively communicating how your solution offerings can enhance and bring added value to your clients’ operational environments.

 

Learning Pathway

Attendees will learn how to successfully:

  • Create a Business Motivation Model to structure strategic thinking
  • Create a Business Model Canvas to conceptualise strategic business models
  • Create a Business Capability Model to conceptualise and structure a business operating model
  • Use a Capability-based Planning approach to shape and operationalise strategy
  • Identify key Stakeholders and their concerns; determine how to find answers for those concerns
  • Summarise useful ways to engage with Stakeholders through a strategic planning process
  • Summarise Business Modelling techniques and artefacts
  • Use a Business Capability Model as an Anchor Model for a variety of strategic analyses
  • Summarise a variety of strategic analyses of business capabilities
  • Create a simple Transition Plan to stage strategic execution
  • Present a strategic narrative to an executive audience using artefacts to illustrate strategic advice

 

Now endorsed by IIBA® (International Institute of Business Analysisâ„¢) and Eligible for PD Hours / CDUs

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.

Those with the necessary work-history who are looking to sit for either the CCBA® or CBAP® exam can use the 24 hours earned from our Applied Business Architecture endorsed course toward meeting the Professional Development (PD) hour requirement. The CCBA® requires 21 PD Hours to sit for the exam, whereas the CBAP® requires 35 PD Hours. Those with an existing IIBA® certification could use the hours toward the Continuing Development Units (CDUs) needed to recertify their CCBA®, CBAP®, IIBA®-AAC, or IIBA®-CBDA.

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Benefits to Your Organisation

Equip your team with actionable business architecture expertise that drives transformation and efficiency:

  • Strategic Alignment: Enable seamless integration of business strategy with operational processes.
  • Enhanced Decision-Making: Deliver insights for better resource allocation and capability investment.
  • Operational Efficiency: Reduce complexity, optimise workflows, and boost productivity.
  • Scalable Impact: Achieve measurable outcomes that scale across business units and stakeholders.

Benefits to You

Successful completion of this course demonstrates mastery of industry-standard methodologies and ensures that you can:

  • Lead business transformation initiatives confidently.
  • Leverage TOGAF® and IIBA-endorsed frameworks to design practical, scalable solutions.
  • Enhance your career prospects with a credential recognised worldwide.

Miro Whiteboards

Experience the power of collaboration and transform the way you learn with our new Miro whiteboard activities. Dive into real-time collaboration on business architecture activities throughout the course, where you will brainstorm, strategise, and visualise solutions alongside peers from anywhere around the globe. Applied Business Architecture brings the hands-on experience of a workshop to your screen, ensuring you gain practical skills that apply directly to your work. From interactive strategy mapping to stakeholder engagement exercises, our course offers hands-on learning that mirrors real-world challenges using a case study.

Day One: Foundations of Business Architecture
Welcome
The Next Generation Business Architect
Applying Business Architecture
The Case Study
Engaging Stakeholders and Eliciting Concerns
Business Modelling
Strategic Planning
Day Two: Value Systems and Capability Mapping
Value Systems
Capability-Based Planning
Capability Mapping and Business Capability Model
Customer Value Perspective
Strategic Analysis: Capability Maturity
Strategic Analysis: Pain Points
Day Three: Strategic Analysis and Execution
Strategic Analysis: Projects
Strategic Analysis: Industry – Market
Disruption and Strategic Impact
Strategic Importance of Capabilities
Strategic Analysis: Future – Maturity
Target State Architecture (Business Capability Model)
Capability Uplift: Transition Planning and Roadmap
Presenting the Findings
Emerging Practices
Business Architecture and Execution

Now endorsed by IIBA® (International Institute of Business Analysis™) and Eligible for PD Hours / CDUs

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. 

Those with the necessary work-history who are looking to sit for either the CCBA® or CBAP® exam can use the 24 hours earned from our Applied Business Architecture endorsed course toward meeting the Professional Development (PD) hour requirement. The CCBA® requires 21 PD Hours to sit for the exam, whereas the CBAP® requires 35 PD Hours. Those with an existing IIBA® certification could use the hours toward the Continuing Development Units (CDUs) needed to recertify their CCBA®, CBAP®, IIBA®-AAC, or IIBA®-CBDA. 

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