Boston, MA (PRWEB) August 08, 2013
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This best practices report focuses on the work of the Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) team at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and their use of Accelare methods and tools to facilitate a set of collaborative, capability-based planning workshops with relevant business stakeholders to understand the company’s capabilities in relation to business goals. These workshops improved collaboration across the business, including the support departments (Information Systems, Information Management, HR, Finance, Business Process Engineering), and were instrumental in getting the strategy communicated down and through the organization to increase employee comprehension of, and engagement in the strategic efforts of the firm.
Even when architecture groups have a well established model of the business’s capabilities, they are rarely able to decompose it in a logical way and use it to establish a unified view of business priorities. At BCBSNC, EBA’s approach provided a clear understanding of capability importance and performance, and resulted in a rational prioritization of improvement areas according to external pressures, strategic plans, business priorities, resources, and time.
The report is available to CEM members [here.