The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Business Capability
A particular ability that a business may possess or exchange to achieve a specific purpose.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Business Model
A model describing the rationale for how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, and the TOGAF Series Guide: Business Models, Chapter 2, p.3]
Business Scenario
A technique used to help identify, understand, and document business needs, and thereby derive the business requirements that an architecture development has to address.
[Source: TOGAF Series Guide: Business Scenarios]
Capability
An ability that an organization, person, or system possesses.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Course of Action
Direction and focus provided by strategic goals and objectives, often to deliver the value proposition characterized in the business model.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Enterprise
The highest level (typically) of description of an organization and typically covers all missions and functions. An enterprise will often span multiple organizations.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Information
Any communication or representation of facts, data, or opinions, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audio-visual forms.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Information Map
A collection of information concepts and their relationships to one another.
[Source: TOGAF Series Guide: Information Mapping]
Information Mapping
A means to articulate, characterize, and visually represent the information that is critical to the business.
[Source: TOGAF Series Guide: Information Mapping]
Modeling
A technique through construction of models which enables a subject to be represented in a form that enables reasoning, insight, and clarity concerning the essence of the subject matter.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Requirement
A statement of need that must be met by a particular architecture or work package.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Target Architecture
The description of a future state of the architecture being developed for an organization.
Note: There may be several future states developed as a roadmap to show the evolution of the architecture to a target state.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
Value
1. The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
2. The usefulness, advantage, benefit, or desirability of something.
[Source: TOGAF Series Guide: Value Streams, Chapter 1, p.1]
Value Stream
A representation of an end-to-end collection of value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end user.
[Source: The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2]
3.3 Summary
This chapter lists and defines the key terms used in this Study Guide and the TOGAF Business Architecture Syllabus. These terms are used within other chapters of this Study Guide.
3.4 Exercises
1. Consider the following table of definitions:
| Definition |
| 1. A technique used to help identify, understand, and document business needs, and thereby derive the business requirements that an architecture development has to address. |
| 2. A description of the rationale for how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value. |
| 3. A representation of an end-to-end collection of value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end user. |
| 4. A particular ability that a business may possess or exchange to achieve a specific purpose. |
| 5. A representation of holistic, multi-dimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to-end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders. |
| 6. An ability that an organization, person, or system possesses. |
Complete the first column in the following table, by entering the relevant number(s) to identify the correct definition from the previous table for each term. (Refer to Section 3.2.)
| Answer | Term |
| .......... | Business Architecture |
| .......... | Capability |
| .......... | Business Model |
| .......... | Business Scenario |
| .......... | Value Stream |
| .......... | Business Capability |
3.5 Test Yourself Questions
Q1: Which of the following is defined as a technique to identify, understand, and document business needs, and thereby derive business requirements?
A. Business Architecture
B. Business Capability mapping
C. Business modeling
D. Business scenario
Q2:
