Graduate Certificate in Business Architecture at Pennsylvania State University

The Graduate Certificate in Business Architecture is offered by the Smeal College of Business. Business Architecture (BA) is a rapidly growing field within Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategic Planning. Business architecture aligns strategic objectives and tactical initiatives that often involve the use of enterprise information technology.

This 9-credit graduate certificate will provide a holistic approach to business architecture that produces a common understanding of the organization, its sources of innovation/distinctiveness, and an approach for effective organizational transformation and strategy execution. Course content focuses on: (1) understanding and applying the concepts of modeling approaches to an enterprise, (2) understanding and fostering sources of organizational innovation, (3) understanding effective enterprise transformation and business strategy execution.

• Graduates will be able to demonstrate competency in the foundational concepts and practices of effective enterprise modeling.
• Graduates will be able to demonstrate competency in developing and explaining different views of strategy development, strategy alignment, and strategy execution.
• Graduates will learn the major areas of concern that affect disruptive innovation.
• Graduates will be able to demonstrate the emerging trends and disruptors in technology and industry that create new markets and influence decision making, product development, business models, and business practices associated with innovation.
• Graduates will be able to demonstrate competency in the business motivations, business operations and business analysis frameworks and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together.
• Graduates will be able to demonstrate competency in developing and explaining different views of an organization that are typically developed in the practice of business architecture.