MBT

Another trend is catching up along with WEB2.0, SOA and EA (Enterprise Architecture) which is Business transformation or IT transformation to be specific. I believe this is going to be the next big thing in IT industry. Most of the enterprises who piled up multiple big and small applications to support their daily business transactions are realizing a need to consolidate the pool of software applications to have a better control monitoring and governance. There is a burning need to control the growth of IT landscape. As a result the enterprises are going for transformation of their IT stack. I foIn search for a standard methodology of business transformation found most of the consulting farms have come up with proprietary methodologies. There is one called MBT (Methodology for Business Transformation - http://www.doi.gov/archive/ocio/architecture/mbt/guidance.htm) presented by the US Department of the Interior. This is in fact in line with some methodologies that I have been using for the last couple of months. This method considers the vital ingredients of EA and IT governance along with the technical aspect of process re-engineering and transformation roadmap. As TOGAF describes the ADM (Architecture Development Method), MBT plays an important role in listing out the important activities to be done on the way to transformation.