Business Architecture

Architecture starts with your business.Not with a product.

Getting the shape right comes first: the processes that create value, the data that records them, and the systems already in place.

Three layers

What the architecture rests on

Business architecture is the work. These three layers are what make it hold.

An architecture that ignores any one of these three does not survive contact with the business. Process without data structure produces reports nobody trusts. Data without the landscape produces integrations nobody can maintain. All three together, or the design stays decoration.

Process

How work moves through your business today, and how it should move.

Designed with the people doing the work, and implemented, so the change is real rather than documented.

Data

The entities, relationships and definitions your business runs on.

Get this right and reporting, automation and AI become possible later. Get it wrong and every one of them stays out of reach.

IT-landscape

The applications, integrations and data flows you already own.

An honest view of what to keep, what to replace and what to connect, settled before anyone proposes new software.

How we work

The process depends on you

There is no standard programme here. A landscape assessment for a company mid-merger looks nothing like a data model for a business outgrowing its spreadsheets. Scope, sequence and depth are set by your situation. What does not change is the discipline applied to it, and the business value it has to produce.

Your situation sets the scope
We start from where you are, not from a phase plan.
Decisions, written down
You keep the architecture, the reasoning and the trade-offs.
Honest about limits
If a piece of work will not change a business outcome, we say so.

Implementation plan

From where you are to where you need to be

Sequenced work with the dependencies made explicit, buildable by us or by your own team.

The shape below is illustrative: real work still starts from your situation, not a fixed programme.

  1. As-is

  2. Assess

    What you run today, mapped: processes, data and IT landscape as they actually work now.

  3. Design

    The target architecture and data model: the shape of where you're headed, and why.

  4. Plan

    Work sequenced with dependencies made explicit, ready to hand to your team or ours.

  5. Execution: by you or by us.

  6. To-be

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Tell us what you are trying to solve

One conversation is usually enough to tell whether we can help, and if we cannot, we will say so.

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You speak with the person who will do the work.
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We work in Dutch and English.
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