Business architecture equips you with a set of business blueprints and a strategic mindset that can guide your journey as you start, scale, and sustain your organization over time. The discipline can help you create a solid business model, tell your story and demonstrate due diligence to investors and partners, scale better, operate better, and invest in the right things at the right time. Furthermore, your business blueprints can help you collaborate with other organizations and ecosystems by facilitating partnerships and matchmaking around the common language of capabilities. UAB Digital is utilizing a revolutionary approach to accelerate matchmaking between corporate organizations and FinTechs, leveraging business blueprints as the common key.
The Startup Blueprinting learning experience is entirely unique and created specifically for startups, especially FinTechs who are currently or planning to work within the UAB ecosystem. In this 8-week hands-on program, we first overview the concept and purpose of business architecture within an organization and introduce the core blueprints (business models, capabilities, and value streams). We then shift to the core focus of the program, which coaches participants through the creation of the core blueprints for their organization, accelerated by non-proprietary reference material. Finally, we explore the usage of blueprints for matchmaking and other relevant scenarios and discuss how you can build business architecture capacity internally. This learning experience gives you an opportunity to learn global best practices from leading experts along with an esteemed cohort of colleagues and collaborators.
Research shows that organizations using a systematic approach for managing strategy and execution outperform those that don’t by a factor of 2:11
Who Should Join
Startup leaders or team members who want to create blueprints for their organization and learn how to leverage them for maximum value both now and in the future. This program is especially relevant to FinTechs who are currently or planning to work within the UAB ecosystem.
Outcomes
This program will help you to:
- Create a core set of ready-to-use, standards-aligned business blueprints
- Inform critical decision-making and organization design with a strategic and holistic architectural lens
- Leverage your business blueprints to build partnerships and ecosystems effectively with other organizations, especially those within the UAB ecosystem
- Formulate and communicate roadmaps from current state to target state to support stages of growth
- Build your internal capacity to effectively prioritize and implement business strategies and changes
The Program
The program spans an 8-week period and includes:
- Recorded webinars and supporting materials for each module, covering blueprint purpose, creation, and usage
- 4 Q&A/group coaching calls to help you with concepts and creation of your blueprints
- Access to an online collaboration platform where you can receive an individual review and coaching on your blueprints as well as interact with colleagues and find additional resources
- Blueprint templates, examples, guidance, and reference material
How To Enroll
The program will open for the next cohort in September, with enrollment to be opened in advance. We will accept people into the program on a first-come-first-served basis. To get on the waitlist for the Startup Blueprinting program, sign up below.
- 1Based on 600 companies over a 10-year period. Source: Hendricks, K.B. and Singhal, V.R. (1999)