Correlation Between Business Service and Product Workflows
Read Chapter 5 of your textbook.
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the relationship between business products and service workflows identified in the Workflows level of the EA6 framework and Lines of Businesses? What commonalities do they have, and how are they different?
2. In figures 5-5 (and in other figures throughout the textbook), the EA6 framework shows arrows pointing from the level of the strategic goals to the workflow level, from the infrastructure level to the systems level, and from the systems level to the dataflows level. What do these arrows represent?
3. Related to question 2, using the class scenario, use OSUIT-specific examples with references demonstrating this ‘arrow’ relationship between the strategic goals level and the workflow level.
4. Using the class scenario, provide two Lines of Business (LoB) for the School of Creative and Information Technologies (CIT).
*Review the assignment support document for minimum requirements for your answers and information on the class scenario.
Chapter 5: Enterprise Architecture
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1. Relationship and Differences
Business service and product workflows recognized in the Workflows level of the EA6 framework and LoB aim at maximizing an enterprise’s value. “Business service and product delivery activities should be modified if change can increase value to the enterprise” (Bernard, 2020. 115). “The LoB then must be tied together that the EA correctly represents the entire enterprise, which is needed for the EA to be of maximum value to the executives, management, and staff” (Bernard, 2020. 117). In addition, these two cases target maximizing the available resources. For instance, business products and service workflows target allocating tasks to the right people according to their skills and LoB. However, products and service workflow is independent in each LoB, making a significant difference between the two (Shanks et al., 2018). In this case, “Each LoB has a complete architecture that includes all five hierarchical levels of the EA6 Framework” (Bernard, 2020. 117). To sum up, there is a significant correlation between amidst service and products workflows recognized in the Workflows level of the EA6 framework and Lines of Businesses
2. What the Arrows Represent
The arrows represent relationships, stages, or hierarchies within the framework, including the EA6. Enterprise architecture implementation is a systematic process exercised with utmost caution. “The faces of EA6 Framework are arranged in terms of the relationship to each other, the hierarchy of sub-architecture domains, and the grouping of lines of business” (Bernard, 2020. 113). In addition, EA architectures design the framework based on relationships, hierarchy, or stages (Gong et al., 2020). As a result, these experts indicate this association from one framework to another through arrows. In brief, the arrows represent a shift from stages, relationships, or hierarchy, including the order of preference.
3. Strategic Goals Level and Workflow Level Relationship in OSUIT using Arrows
Figure 1: Relationship
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Mission: “To serve as the lead institution of higher education in Oklahoma and the region, providing comprehensive, high-quality, advancing technology programs and services to prepare and sustain a diverse student body as competitive members of a world-class workforce and contributing members of society.”
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