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A business architect is a practitioner of business architecture, a discipline concerned with developing and maintaining business capabilities of the enterprise in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the business strategy and plans. This also includes design of capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks, mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources, developing business transformation plans jointly with senior business management, handling business solutions to the delivery and operational business functions of the company, developing and maintaining architectural governance and controls over implementation. For each step of the business transformation plan, business architects contribute in development of a blueprint of the enterprise in order to promote a common understanding of the organization and alignment of strategic objectives with tactical demands.〔Object Management Group, Business Architecture Working Group, "Definition of business architecture," at ''bawg.omg.org,'' 2010.; Cited in: William M. Ulrich, Philip Newcomb. ''Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies.'' (2010), p.4.〕 ==Role== Given that the business architecture as a distinct discipline is relatively young, the role of a business architect is often relative to the organization. A business architect can operate on one or more levels of the organization depending on the level of maturity of the architecture practice within that organization.〔Jonathan Whelan and Graham Meaden, ''Business Architecture, A Practical Guide'', 2012.〕 Nonetheless, there is a difference between architectural and analysis works: the former concerns core organising rather abstractive organisation of business while the latter is more about implementation of architectural abstractions. * At the lowest level, a role of business architect is usually replaced by a role of business analyst who engages with the project with the main purpose of communicating architecture and promoting project's alignment with it. * At the program level, a business architect translates strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives. * At the strategic level, a business architect supplements the vision with target capabilities, supporting principles and policies and a current state environmental assessment to provide contextual rationale * At the macro level, a business architect establishes principles and governing policies over interaction with suppliers, partners and all types of outsourcing while the corporate executives work on the vision, desired target state and the benefits the organization brings to its stakeholders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Business architect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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