It is not enough to know the market and the products that are offered in the market. It has become important to know the architecture of the products and services offered by the enterprise. Product and service architectures have a structure that can be analyzed for efficiencies and opportunities, such as: clustering parts of a product or service into platforms. These platforms are then supported by the process architecture.
This course presents a methodology, artifacts and possible tools for developing and analyzing product, service and process architectures. Specific techniques of semantic analysis are used to compare and contrast the architectures, determine where common points are and identify opportunities for consolidation into platforms or separation into individual product lines. Further the techniques can be used for comparing and contrasting structures for potential mergers, acquisition or consolidations.