Learn how to:

- Identify core competencies for the organization
- Model the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architecture
- Perform customer value analysis
- Plan for process management
- Manage the AS-IS and TO-BE IT architectures
- Recognize the importance of serviceoriented architecture
- Manage the project portfolio
- Perform impact analyses, risk analyses and feasibility studies
- Prepare the decision package

Strategic Enterprise Analysis is an advanced course designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to begin working as part of a strategic enterprise analysis team. In particular, the course covers the major activities of strategic enterprise analysis that must be conducted to study the enterprise architecture. These activities include analyzing core competencies, performing customer value analysis, performing process management, examining the IT architecture, and evaluating the project portfolio. The course also examines the impact of service-oriented architecture (SOA) on the enterprise architecture.

After completing this course, you will understand the steps for modeling the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architectures and how the TO-BE enterprise architecture contributes to the overall project portfolio. The steps for conducting an impact analysis, risk analysis and
feasibility study are discussed to ensure that the business case for future investments traces back to the business strategy.

Professional Development Units (PDUs): 21.0

1. Introduction to Strategic Enterprise Analysis

a. Identifying components of the enterprise architecture
b. Planning for business rules, data management and change management
c. Identifying core competencies

2. Enterprise Architecture

a. Modeling the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architectures
b. Performing an impact analysis and feasibility study
c. Documenting the business case for the TO-BE enterprise architecture

3. Customer Value Analysis

a. Performing customer value analysis
b. Using customer value analysis to improve the enterprise architecture

4. Process Management

a. Creating a process improvement projectplan in support of the TO-BE enterprise architecture
b. Documenting the business case for new processes

5. IT Architecture

a. Create the IT architecture project plan
b. Modeling the AS-IS and TO-BE IT architecture
c. Ensuring the IT architecture supports the enterprise architecture
d. Documenting the business case for the TO-BE IT architecture

6. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

a. Ensuring SOA supports the enterprise architecture
b. Defining requirements for SOA
c. Portfolio Management
d. Selecting projects to implement the TO-BE enterprise architecture
e. Ensuring projects support the business strategy