KNOWLEDGEBASE

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take another look at business architecture in action—this time to help organizations manage risk and compliance.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take a look at business architecture in action for common business scenarios, this time with a focus on product management.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about how we can leverage tools for accelerating the development of a business architecture knowledgebase.

We know that the business architecture knowledgebase is fundamental to the enterprise insights, analysis and ways of designing that are unique only to architecture. But how do we build our knowledgebase fast—especially if we’re just starting our business architecture practice? In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about how we can leverage reference models to accelerate the development of a business architecture knowledgebase, so here goes.

Back to business architecture school one more time. In our last installment, we talked about how to map out (a.k.a write down) the “core” business architecture that included capabilities, value streams, organization and information. Here in this installment, we’re going to talk about mapping the “extended” business architecture domains.

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.

“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.