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Business Architecture: Dispelling Twelve Common Myths

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

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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Business Architecture: The Gateway to Transforming an Organization Into an Agile Enterprise

This white paper by business architecture industry leaders Whynde Kuehn and William Ulrich illustrates how business architecture can be a gateway for an organization to transform itself into an agile enterprise.
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Leaving a Legacy: How to Deal With Legacy Business Architecture Challenges

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

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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Accelerating Business Architecture: 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 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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Making the Grade: Assessing Business Architecture

In this installment of StraightTalk, we are going to look at a topic of increasing interest and practice: business architecture assessments.
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Accelerating Business Architecture: Building the Knowledgebase

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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The Canvas Awaits — How Business Models and Business Architecture Fit Together

Get ready for some StraightTalk on a topic we all love: business models. In this installment, we talk about what they are and how they are BFF (Best Friends Forever) with business architecture.
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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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