The very complex task of organizing the company’s multidimensional activities, development of a systemic vision of the company’s activities “as it should be” require from its managers and specialists a systematically built work on the development, integration, harmonization and description of the applied methods of organization and management. A convenient way of integrated description of activity is structuring of the company in the form of corporate architecture.
Corporate architecture is a description of the goals of the organization, ways to achieve these goals with the help of business processes and techniques to improve the efficiency of business process service using various technologies.
Components of corporate architecture
- business architecture, which is based on the company’s mission, strategy, description of business processes and projects required for the implementation of this strategy, both existing and potentially necessary, description of the organizational model reflecting the organization of the main divisions and centers of competence in relation to business processes and projects;
- architecture of the management system, structured both by levels and functional areas, and by management functions in connection with the main business processes;
- information technology architecture, the basis of which are software solutions and the entire technological infrastructure necessary for the implementation of the business architecture and the architecture of the management system.
All these components should be considered as a whole, and together they constitute the so-called corporate architecture of the company and, when documented, can play the role of a methodological guide of the upper level for the organization of its activities.
Corporate governance – controlling and managing system of a joint-stock company, which establishes the rights and obligations of various participants of the organization (members of the Boards of Directors, managers and shareholders), as well as contains the basic rules and procedures that ensure the adoption of management decisions.
Strategic management – formation of goals and methods of their realization, establishment of rules and regulations of activity
Operational management – ensuring (with the given rules and regulations) operational results corresponding to the set goals and ensuring the realization of the goals.
Information architecture deals with the principles of information systematization and navigation in order to help people more successfully find and process the data they need.