Business Analysis

Value of Business Architecture

Laura Brandenburg, a recognized global leader helping business analysts with their careers, interviews Whynde Kuehn on business architecture, the value of the business architect role in an organization, and what business analysts can do to pursue this as a career. See also the blog page at: https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/business-architecture/
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Business Objects Are Ubiquitous Throughout Business & IT Architecture

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Guiding Initiative Prioritization and Planning

Explore how business architecture can be leveraged to guide initiative prioritization and planning.
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Scoping Initiatives From An Enterprise Perspective With Business Architecture

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Four quadrants showing how business architecture can reduce siloed mindsets and increase productivity in the organization

How Business Architecture Breaks Down And Bridges Silos

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Untangling Customer Journeys, Architecture and Process Within Strategy Execution Context

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Business Architecture and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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Connecting Strategy To Execution

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Taking Initiative: How to Leverage Business Architecture for Initiative Planning

Leveraging business architecture for prioritizing, scoping, shaping, sequencing, informing and rationalizing initiatives is one of the most common – and powerful – uses of business architecture. Smart initiative planning is critical to effective strategy execution, and leveraging business architecture for it inherently shifts mindsets in new ways that consider the bigger picture for the enterprise both now and in the future. In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore just a few different ways in which business architecture can be leveraged for initiative planning.
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Mind The Gap: How Business Architecture Breaks Down and Bridges Silos

Silos are in many ways just inherently human, but unchecked, they can become detrimental to an organization’s success. Business architecture is uniquely qualified to break down and bridge silos, as this installment explores.
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