Tier 1
Core Practice Foundation
Complete these before specializing in any sector pathway.
Learn why strategies fail at execution, and what a business architect does about it. This course introduces the Design4 Framework through a real organisational case study, from crisis to capability. The foundation for everything that follows.
Build the shared vocabulary that makes cross-functional work possible. You'll construct a business reference model, classify capabilities, and navigate the organisational politics that derail most architecture programs.
Master the communication skills that determine whether your work actually lands. Executive briefs, working sessions, resistance types: this course covers how to write, present, and facilitate for the audiences that matter.
Learn how to shape what gets built. Solution oversight, vendor negotiation, AI proposal assessment, benefits tracking: from a practitioner's perspective, not a theorist's.
Tier 2
Apply It to Your Sector
After completing the Core Practice Foundation courses, apply your practice skills in the context that matters most to you. Each pathway produces real work in your actual organization.
Apply Business Architecture practice skills to student lifecycle, academic programs, and campus operations.
Apply Business Architecture practice skills to align mission, capabilities, and impact for nonprofit organizations.
The Model
How the T-Shaped Model Works
Build the Practice Skills
Complete core courses that build the practice skills you need to connect your architecture to decisions.
Apply It to Your Sector
Choose your sector and apply those skills to your organization's actual context — your gap, your stakeholders, your situation.
Leave with Real Work
Complete a capstone project built on your actual organization. Applied, not theoretical — work you can use Monday morning.
Change what Monday looks like.
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