Organizations have grown so complex in recent years that it is difficult to visualize or understand how all of the parts fit together. At the same time, executives want to reshape and transform their organizations to be more competitive and more customer centric. This requires that executives across business units view issues and solutions from a shared, enterprise-wide perspective. Business Architecture maps and documents the essence of the enterprise. Visualizing a business through architectural disciplines is not entirely new. Creating a business-friendly framework that allows business professionals to visualize and transform organizations, however, is a groundbreaking achievement! Business architecture is a blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands.
William Ulrich is a management consultant and President of TSG, Inc. Mr. Ulrich is an advisor and mentor with more than 32 years of business experience, including senior management positions at KPMG. He has written several books, published hundreds of articles and papers, and has worked with numerous large corporations and government agencies in the area of business architecture and business / IT alignment. Mr. Ulrich is Editorial Director of the Business Architecture Institute and Co-chair of the OMG Business Architecture SIG.
