Overviews

This white paper by leading industry experts provides a brief introduction to business architecture, describes and dispels twelve commonly held misconceptions or myths, and gives a glimpse of the future Revised: January 2019

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.

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.

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.