Organization Design

The People Perspective: How Organization Design and Business Architecture Work Together

This installment of StraightTalk explores how the disciplines of organization design and business architecture can work together. The discipline of organization design is critical for organizations, especially now, and there must be tight partnership and integration with business architecture.
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Business Architecture Benefits for Organization Design

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Demystifying An Organization: The Business Architecture Take on Organization Mapping

This installment of StraightTalk breaks down the concept of organization mapping through the business architecture lens. It provides a guided tour, including the intent of organization mapping and its technique.
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How Business Architecture Breaks Down And Bridges Silos

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Common Ways of Leveraging Business Architecture For Enterprise Decision Making

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What It Means To Shift The Organizational Mindset

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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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Decisions, Decisions: How Business Architecture Facilitates Better Decision-Making

In this installment of StraightTalk, we’ll take another look at business architecture in action. This time, we’ll focus on how it can be used as a framework for better decision-making. The intention here is to give you some examples of how you can use business architecture to support different types of decision-making within your organization. We’re confident these will inspire many more ideas of your own.
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