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Taking Initiative: How to Leverage Business Architecture for Initiative Planning

02 March 2020

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

20 January 2020

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

19 December 2019

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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Living The Dream: How to Integrate Business Architecture With Strategy Execution

15 April 2019

This marks the 50th installment of StraightTalk, and we’re returning to our roots. Waaay back in Post No. 3, we introduced a new vision for strategy execution and explored how business architecture could help to enable it. We called it the Strategy Execution Metanoia, because a metanoia is a transformational moment – when you see the world in a different way and can’t go back.

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How to Deal With Strategy Challenges: Bad Strategy, Non-Strategy, No Strategy

02 July 2018

This post will focus on how to deal with strategy challenges. While there are many common challenges in this space, since we are StraighTalkin’ here, we’ll just lay out some of biggies and then get right to the point on how to deal.

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5-Minutes with Linda Finley: How Business Models Work with Business Architecture

Whynde Kuehn interviews Linda Finley for a look at business models and the important role they play in business architecture.

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The Strategy Execution Metanoia: Translating Strategy Into Action With Business Architecture

01 May 2017

“Houston, we have a problem.” “Uh, this is Houston. Uh, say again please.” We have a strategy execution problem. Remember that whole deal in Post No. 2 about how constant change is the new normal as customer expectations increase and the external environment evolves at an escalating pace? That means the ability for organizations to get their ideas—things like strategies, transformations, innovations and regulatory changes—into action has never been more important than it is right now.

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Business Architecture: A Key Enabler for Strategy Realization

01 March 2015

A presentation by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Jeff Scott introducing the importance of a defined strategy execution value stream, the role of business architecture and how to integrate business architecture into the value stream.

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