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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Dos and Don’ts For Establishing a Business Architecture Practice

01 April 2019

This installment gives you the straight talk on some serious dos and don’ts for establishing a business architecture practice within an organization. We’ll ground our conversation by reflecting on a fundamental concept of the business architecture discipline — often misunderstood — that will assist in guiding you and help you to stay on the right path.

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From Alpha to Zero: How Business Architecture Helps Organizations Leverage Artificial Intelligence

17 December 2018

Business architecture is front and center to helping organizations prepare for a digital future. In this installment of StraightTalk, we explore how business architecture can help organizations to harness this artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.

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Leaving a Legacy: How to Deal With Legacy Business Architecture Challenges

16 July 2018

This installment of StraightTalk focuses on how to deal with legacy business architecture challenges (a.k.a. you realize the business architecture knowledgebase you built is not quite right). This is a common situation for business architecture teams which have been at this for awhile—though there are important lessons to heed here for new teams as well.

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Accelerating Business Architecture: Using Reference Models

13 June 2018

Organizations that desire to leverage business architecture for transformation, better strategy execution, or various types of decision making need to build their business architecture knowledgebase first before they can fully benefit from the discipline. This is part two of a three-part series of articles that describe how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. This article focuses on using reference models.

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Accelerating Business Architecture: Building the Knowledgebase

08 May 2018

Organizations that desire to leverage business architecture for transformation, better strategy execution, or various types of decision making need to build their business architecture knowledgebase first before they can fully benefit from the discipline. This is part one of a three-part series of articles that describe how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. This article focuses on building the knowledgebase.

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A Map of the World, Part 1: Back to School With Mapping the Core Business Architecture Foundation

18 September 2017

Okay, time to go back to business architecture school. Having our business architecture written down is at the heart of us being able to do cool stuff with it, so we better talk a little more about mapping it out.

In this StraighTalk installment, we’re going to talk about the “core” business architecture domains. That means those four boxes in the middle of our favorite diagram below.

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