BCS Professional Certificate in Business Architecture
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Overview
This course explores how business architecture supports the strategic development of an enterprise. Learners will examine how to define, align, and model business structures and capabilities to enable effective change and value delivery. Key topics include motivation analysis, capability planning, value stream mapping, and aligning information needs with business objectives.
By engaging with recognised frameworks and practical modelling techniques, participants will gain the skills needed to build and articulate business architecture in alignment with organisational goals. The course includes an exam voucher for the BCS Professional Certificate in Business Architecture.
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, experience in a business context—such as business analysis, change management, or policy development—will help learners relate to the content.
Target audience
This course is suitable for business analysts, enterprise architects, change managers, policy-makers, and professionals involved in strategic planning or organisational development. It is ideal for those looking to understand how to structure and communicate business models and capabilities in support of business transformation.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the purpose and importance of business architecture in the enterprise context
- Identify how business architecture integrates with data, application, and technology domains
- Define the components and key views of a business architecture framework
- Analyse business motivation using goals, objectives, and influencers
- Apply business model concepts, including the business model canvas
- Map value chains and value streams to understand value delivery
- Understand the role of competencies and organisational capabilities
- Describe cultural and structural influences on business change
- Develop and use information concept models
- Articulate the impact of change on business architecture
Course Outline
Foundations of business architecture
- Introduction to business architecture frameworks
- Business architecture in the enterprise architecture stack
- The business motivation view: goals, objectives, influencers, and assessments
- Capability and organisation view: capabilities, organisational structures, and role modelling
Processes, value, and technology
- Value and process view: value chain analysis, value stream mapping, business processes
- Information and technology view: data and information models, conceptual modelling, alignment with technology systems
Competencies and change
- Competency and people view: defining competencies, aligning people and capabilities
- Business architecture and business change: cultural web, change impact, architecture as an enabler of transformation
Exams and assessments
This course includes a BCS Professional Certificate in Business Architecture exam voucher. The exam is a one-hour, closed-book, multiple-choice assessment via remote proctor. Learners must schedule the exam to take place after the course. The exam voucher expires 12 months after confirmed attendance of the course.
Hands-on learning
The course includes real-world examples and case-based discussions. Learners engage with structured frameworks, modelling tools, and collaborative exercises to practise mapping business capabilities, modelling value streams, and analysing organisational impact.
Why choose QA
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- Nearly 300,000 learners in 2020
- Our training experts are industry leaders
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BCS Advanced International Diploma in Business Analysis pathway
After taking 1 People Skills, 1 Business Skills, and 1 Analytical Skills course, you must complete an additional course from Business OR Analytical before final submission.
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