Bridging the gap betweenstrategy and execution

Business Architecture aligns the organization

Delivering business transformationWe ensure successful strategy translation by enabling your company to visualize the end-state of its business strategy before the plan is implemented. Our Business Architecture approach delivers:

Focused and aligned strategy

Improved decision making

Increased operational efficiency and capacity for growth

Agility in your business and IT execution

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Any business—from an entrepreneur to the largest corporation—can benefit from Business Architecture. Here are a few examples of how we have helped organizations to apply Business Architecture:✔ Start a new company✔ Define a new market✔ Define a new product offering in the marketplace✔ Restructure a business unit✔ Drive legacy modernization✔ Reinvent what and who a company is ✔ Integrate people, processes, capabilities, technology and culture during M&A ✔ Transform a Fortune 50 enterprise around customer experience✔ Make a decision that dramatically reshapes a federal program✔ Solve social problems holistically

How value is derived through Business Architecture

If your organization has not applied Business Architecture before, select an appropriate effort to pilot the approach to help build an understand of how it applies to your organization and foster buy-in. Our Business Architecture Practice offers the following services available to meet your specific Business Architecture needs:✔ Business Transformation Enablement✔ New Business / Product / Market Support✔ Large-scale Technology Implementation Support✔ Compliance Management Support✔ Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) Support

Engage Business Architecture at the beginning of a corporate initiative

Let us help you start your new Business Architecture practice, from defining your value proposition to standing up all the necessary components of your internal practice. We offer training and mentoring to develop your staff into highly trained business architects. We provide the following services to leverage, create, or enhance your own Business Architecture Practice:✔ Practice Evaluation and Strategy✔ Practice Structure and Role Development ✔ Architecture Change Management and Communication✔ Enterprise Model Building✔ Standards and Methods Development✔ Governance Processes✔ Practice Metrics and Evaluation✔ Tool Assessment and Alignment✔ Training and Mentoring✔ Business Architecture Community Support

Engage us to help start your own Business Architecture practice

Talk to us today to learn how STA Group’s Business Architecture Practice can work for you.Contact us today

Lingua franca: facilitating change through a common languageWe deliver a reusable set of assets— in a commonly understood language —that enables your company to quickly assess and make strategic or operational changes.

Uncovering misalignmentBusiness Architecture reveals where organizational investment is not well aligned to the strategies and goals of the company.

Missing the targetWhen individual business units interpret the strategy differently, a “mutually agreed upon” hybrid solution results that is inefficient, non-integrated—or worse— misses the target objectives entirely.

Does your company suffer from chronic disconnect?A common problem in today’s business: the upstream corporate vision fails to get successfully translated into actionable objectives. Downstream, critical coordination fails amongst business units, as well as between the business and IT.

STA Business Architecture bridges the gap between a company’s strategy and its successful execution. We work with you to understand where your business really is, where it wants to go, and what it truly takes to get there — without the costly risk of trial-by-error. We integrate deeply into your organization to address all dimensions of your challenges and identify the best path to resolution and subsequent realization of strategic goals.

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