Business modelling and E-Business [INFOM422]

Learning outcomes

This course aims to provide students the methodological background to evaluate and develop innovative business models and their realization in terms of an enterprise architecture.

Objectives

1. Students will learn core concepts underlying conceptual modelling, such as used for business models and enterprise architecture models.
2. Students will learn to (1) express existing (as-is) business models, (2) express possible future (to-be) business models, and (3) evaluate these in terms of costs and benefits
3. Students will learn to express such business models in state of the art modelling approaches, including the business model canvas and e3value.
4. Students will learn to (1) express existing (as-is) enterprise architectures, (2) anlyse the architectural alignment between the as-is business model and as-is enterprise architecture, (3) express possible future enterprise architectures, aligned to selected future business models.
5. Students will learn to express these enterprise architecture models in terms of the ArchiMate standard for enterprise architecture.

Content

The course is structured into six blocks of four hours each, while using a running case:

1. Conceptual Modelling Foundations.
2. ArchiMate modelling 1, focused on as-is modelling.
3. Introduction to the running case.
4. Business modelling 1, focused on as-is modelling, and architectural alignment.
5. Business modelling 2, focused on to-be modelling towards future scenarios.
6. ArchiMate modelling 2, focused on to-be modelling.