A Transformation Framework Proposal for Managers in Business Innovation and Business Transformation Projects-Enterprise Patterns Based Architecture

Abstract

A determinant success factor in transforming a traditional business environment into an innovative and lean enterprise architecture pattern is the role of the applied set of patterns that are based on services and building blocks. Such a business transformation process should be assisted with an efficient transformation and architecture framework that includes an enterprise patterns, services and building blocks assembling concept. Enterprise pattern based concepts can change the transformation project's outcomes and make the business transformation projects agile, maintainable and interoperable. The business transformation manager's (BTM) and enterprise architect's roles are crucial for the finalization of the very complex implementation phase of the business transformation project (BTP). During this phase the BTM's knowledge is determinant to design and implement the set of enterprise patterns, services, system's integration bus and building blocks. Enterprise patterns express a fundamental structural model for the transformed end-system. They provide a set of predefined composite patterns with their responsibilities and relationships. An enterprise pattern provides a scheme for unbundling the components of a monolithic system and defines the relationship between them; it also abstracts a general structure of related services that promote a general design for a specific BTP context1.