Capability Mapping

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

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Capabilities & Value Streams As Connectors For Organizations & Ecosystems

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Business Objects Are Ubiquitous Throughout Business Architecture

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Business Capability Maps In Practice

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Guidance For Establishing A Business Architecture Practice

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How To Address A Legacy Capability Map

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Leveraging Business Architecture Industry Reference Models

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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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Hit the Ground Running! Business Architecture Development

This Cutter Consortium report describes how business architecture professionals can accelerate the development of their organization’s business architecture. Learn how to build the knowledgebase in an efficient way, leverage reference models that help jumpstart the business architecture, and utilize tools that enable scale and robust usage of the knowledgebase across the organization. By leveraging solid business architecture know-how, practitioners will be fully equipped to deliver business value across the entire strategy execution lifecycle. 
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The Enterprise Advocate: How Business Architecture Brings Clarity to Customers and Products

In order to compete and operate effectively, an organization must have clarity on who their customers are and what products they offer – and this must be consistently understood by every person so they know who they are serving and how they fit within the bigger picture. An organization’s business architecture is front and center to providing this clarity, which is what we explore throughout this installment of StraightTalk.
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