Enterprise Architecture

Colorful chart showing how business architecture can be used to build a cognitive enterprise

Using Business Architecture To Build A Cognitive Enterprise

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Common Ways of Leveraging Business Architecture For Enterprise Decision Making

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A Business Architecture Represents An Entire Organization And Its Ecosystem — Including Information Technology

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Aligning Business Architecture & Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

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Business & IT Architecture Transformation Framework

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How Business Architecture Fits Within Enterprise Architecture

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Business Architecture In Action For Business Transformation

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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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Business Design Identifies and Points to the Data

This article by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark articulates the role of business design in not only helping to identify the data that will power AI but also ensuring that all appropriate guardrails have been considered and are put in place.
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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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