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Business Architecture and Customer Experience

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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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Guiding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence With Business Design

Senior leaders are feeling the push from shareholders to continue driving their organizations forward, but is AI the answer? Just because AI is front-page news, is it right for your organization? Are the implications truly understood? These questions and more are crucial for leaders as the AI evolution continues to shape the next wave of work. Clearly, AI will profoundly transform our lives in the years ahead. Finding the balance between opportunity and implications is key to our success as well as to our future.

This executive report, written by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark, explores these opportunities and implications, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action.
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Business Architecture for Superior CX Design

This on-demand webinar reveals how, through the combination of business architecture and customer experience design, organizations can gain more insight into where and how to align and transform their business models so they can focus on the ongoing needs of their customers while driving organizational efficiencies.

This webinar is published by Cutter Consortium and was selected as one of the Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles / Videos for 2018.
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Left Brain Meet Right Brain—The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience

Get ready for a great StraightTalk installment. In this installment, we explore a topic that everyone wants to know about in this age of organizational transformation — customer experience.
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5-Minutes with Mike Clark: The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience

Whynde Kuehn interviews customer experience (CX) guru Mike Clark on the interconnectedness of business architecture and CX.
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Untangling Customer Journeys, Value Chains, Value Streams, and Business Processes

This article discusses four often confused organizational views: customer journeys, value chains, value streams, and business processes. On the surface, each of these business artifacts may appear to have some similar elements, such as the business vocabulary they use or the fact that they represent some concept of “flow.” However, as this article clarifies, all four views differ in both intention and representation and thus should be clearly differentiated from each other.
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Making the Customer Experience Real with Business Architecture

This article provides an overview of the benefits and integration points between customer experience design and business architecture, two mutually beneficial disciplines, both critical to customer centricity and transformation.
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