The Cisco Business Architecture Specialist is a certification program that picks up from the Business Architecture Analyst certification to continue your journey to becoming a full-fledged Business Architect. Beyond reinforcing foundational knowledge, this program builds the explicit skills and tools to model the business, empower stakeholders, and achieve the desired outcomes to further the digital transformation of the customer. Practice building rapport and credibility, fostering entrepreneurship, and implementing consultative approaches that help develop critical customer skills. This certification continues the candidate's journey toward Business Architect.

This job role based certification will help candidates to:
Adopt a consultative and need-driven approach
Understand and employ the Cisco Business Architecture Methodology
Define and determine the maturity level for the business
Build a business model that accurately describes a business
Identify internal and external business drivers

This course is structured and is based on the customer journey and the need to transition from a "technology first" conversation to a "business first" conversation between the Cisco Business Architect and the customer.

Candidates will gain an understanding of the customer, their business, business model, and identify the business capabilities and business solutions that will enhance the value proposition and the long-term business strategy. The end goal is to achieve value realization from the stated business outcomes.