Business Governance

Intro

Business Governance defines how decisions are made, monitored, and enforced to meet objectives and compliance. In EA, it provides guardrails for change and operations.

Key points:

• Clarifies decision rights, roles, and forums
• Improves compliance and accountability
• Common use cases: policy management, risk oversight, investment approvals, standards adoption
• Pitfall: bureaucracy that slows decisions and delivery

Examples:

• Steering committee approving portfolio investments
• Risk and compliance forum setting policy
• Standards board managing enterprise policies

In practice:

Align governance with Enterprise Architecture and operating model design.

Related terms: Governance; Architecture Governance; Policy

FAQs:

Q: How to keep governance effective?
A: Clear scope, simple rules, and data‑driven decisions.

Q: How does it relate to EA?
A: EA provides the structures and artefacts that governance uses to guide change.

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