Uplift Your Enterprise Architecture Skills

To enable business value through information capabilities, IT professionals are being asked not only to deliver IT systems but to also help define, develop and exploit underlying enterprise capabilities. Are you ready for this challenge? If not, we can help.

The ability to define, develop and exploit enterprise capabilities are new skills for IT professionals; we can help close these skill gaps.

QRS architects have developed a four course program to help IT professionals hone their technical and business skills to:

Understand the characteristics of the required underlying business capability
Communicate the characteristics of the capability in a common language that is understood across all lines of businesses in the organization and also across all customers
Develop comprehensive transition plans for the People, Process and Technology aspects of the capability
Apply leading frameworks to produce results consistently and exploit the knowledge of the global Enterprise Architecture community

Outline of the QRS Business Transformation Courses

TOGAF® 8.1.1: Gain deep understanding of TOGAF 8 and how to apply its core principles to define, develop an exploit Enterprise Capabilities. This is a certified course, upon successful completion students can attain their TOGAF 8 certification.
TOGAF® Foundation: Learn the basic principles of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and how the EA discipline collaborates with Strategic Planning, Portfolio Management, Project Management, IT Service Management and Organization Change Management disciplines.
IT Architecture for Business Capabilities: Learn how to define and communicate IT Architecture for common Business Capabilities. Key topics include – Essentials of Architecture, Enterprise Capabilities, Architecture Requirements and IT Architecture.
TOGAF® Practitioners: Learn in detail about the leading Enterprise Architecture framework, TOGAF® 9. Students will gain sufficient knowledge to complete the TOGAF® Practitioners Certification.
Architecture of the Enterprise with TOGAF®: Learn comprehensively what services an Enterprise Architecture practice provides and how enterprise architects deliver business value to their stakeholders. Students will understand what artifacts and deliverable are required, how to ensure the quality of deliverables and create architecture that lead to the right decisions.
Business Architecture: Learn how to translate Organization’s Strategic intent into enterprise capabilities and help define transition state, value realization governance and architecture requirements for each capability. This is a hands on course, targeted at IT planners, business advisors, customer service reps, enterprise architects, program and project managers.
Organization Change Management: Learn how to manage the impact of change on people. Over the years, OCM community has developed comprehensive techniques and guidelines to not only define OCM strategy but evaluate its effectiveness. This program is designed to give you comprehensive set of techniques to help develop and implement effective OCM strategy.
Leadership through People skills: Expertise based leadership is often most underrated ability but is deemed most important when it comes to leading superiors, peers and subordinates. Have you mastered the essential tools and technique to ensure effective communication. This course is designed to help you develop your communication and leadership skills.