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Business Architecture in Practice

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$ 1,500.00

START DATE

 16 October

MODE

 Online

DURATION

 2 days

COMMITMENT

 16 hours
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Meet the Expert

Dr Christine Stephenson

Dr Christine Stephenson
UTS Industry Fellow and practising Enterprise and Business Architect

Christine has close to 20 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect and has worked in Government and the Private Sector across diverse sizes and industries.  She brings many years of experience into the classroom by sharing her knowledge through practical and hands-on activities using tools that are essential to good architecture practice.

Christine is highly respected in the Architecture community as a coach and mentor to many aspiring architects.  Her students find her engaging and generous in sharing stories of her successes and failures and offers helpful advice on how to overcome challenges with managing architecture practices.

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This course will provide you with the basic practices and foundational principles needed to become a business architect. Through active learning, you will leverage expertise shared by a practicing business architect to develop proficiency in architecture skills and knowledge.

About this course

This course will allow you to quickly grasp the concepts of business architecture and apply this newly gained knowledge in your workplace. 

This is a quick-start course, where you will be introduced to the methodology and tools used by leading, highly experienced business architecture practitioners. 

Gaining this knowledge is just the start of your experience. Your instructor will also coach you in how to apply your business architecture learning to your own organisation through hands-on exercises.

Key benefits of this course

By completing this course you will learn how to partner with the business to build insights into whether the organisation is investing the right things to deliver strategy, as well as resolving issues and challenges that hinder the successful delivery of business outcomes.

Additionally, you will learn how to define valuable work that delivers superior experiences to customers and employees who are critical to your business success.

 

Digital badge and certificate

A digital badge and certificate will be awarded following the successful completion of any necessary tasks or assessments to demonstrate acquired learning of the short course or for meeting attendance and/or participation requirements.

Learn more about UTS Open digital badges.

Price

Full price: $1,500 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase.

Enrolment conditions

Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

Additional course information

Course outline

This course will be delivered as a 2-day training course with flexible delivery options. The course consists of knowledge delivery and activities to ensure you understand the practical application of the material. 

You will learn how to apply the material in your workplace using a case study.  Active learning exercises are based on this case study.

The course consists of eight (8) modules delivered over the two (2) days.

Day 1

  • Course introduction
  • Capability planning
  • Business architecture customers and stakeholders
  • Strategy mapping using the Business Motivation Model
  • Modelling the business architecture

Day 2

  • Business capability modelling
  • Business architecture understanding & insights
    • Strategic importance
    • Pain Points
    • Investments
    • Maturity
  • Presenting the business architecture.

Course learning objectives

By the end of the course, you should:

  1. Understand the basics of business architecture
  2. Know who your key stakeholders are and how to partner with them
  3. Know which business architecture models to use in the right business context to deliver responsive and adaptive insights
  4. Know how to create compelling story boards that saliently present the decisions that need to be made, to realise the business strategy
  5. Understand how to integrate business strategy planning with your business architecture work.

Requirements

Mandatory
To complete this online course, you will need access to a computer or device with adequate internet access and sufficient software and bandwidth to support web conferencing. You will also require an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas and Zoom.

Contact us

For any questions on enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au  

For any questions about course content, delivery or progression, please contact the Faculty of Engineering and IT at feitshortcourses@uts.edu.au

Who is this course for?

This course is for candidates who are keen to attend a foundation course in business architecture that allows them to rapidly acquire knowledge and build skills that are relevant to their everyday work.

Book a session

Thu 16 Oct 2025-
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Expert: Dr Christine Stephenson
  • Online via Zoom. Click on the underlined sessions and hours total link below to reveal specific session details.
  • Online
  • 2 sessions, 16 hours total
$ 1,500.00

Enrolments close at 9am Friday 17 October 2025 (AEDT), or when all places have been filled, whichever occurs first. Note that invoices must be paid in full and reconciled by our Finance team before you can access your online course materials.

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