Maturity Assessments

The Business Architecture Practice: A Practical Approach to Establish and Mature Your Internal Practice

21 February 2017

Designed for business architecture practice leaders and business architecture practitioners, this essential white paper provides a pragmatic perspective on how to establish and mature a business architecture practice. Original Publish Date: 21 February 2017

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Business Architecture Value Assessment Tool™

This assessment tool is used to evaluate the value of an organization's business architecture practice from two perspectives: the Internal Alignment of the team and the External Adoption by others in the organization. The assessment is based on proven global best practices and informed by insights from the Business Architect Strengths study. NOTE: The Business Architecture Value Assessment Tool is for internal use within your organization. Please do not distribute outside your organization.

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Business Architecture Practice Components

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The Essential Business Architecture Starter Pack

Learn the core concepts of business architecture with this collection of white papers that simplify and break down the essentials from end-to-end.

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Business Architecture Summit Diagram

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Business Architecture Maturity Model® (BAMM®)

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Business Architecture Practice Roadmap

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The Business Architecture Summit: A Vision For Business Architecture Practice Maturity and How To Get There

21 June 2019

Having a clear vision of what we are working towards is essential to guide and inspire any journey, so in this installment of StraightTalk, we explore a concept for what it means to be a mature business architecture practice, and how to get there. In other words, if we climb this business architecture mountain, what’s at the top and what are we to expect along the way?

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Defining a "Mature" Business Architecture Practice

16 May 2018

This article summarizes the key characteristics of a mature business architecture practice within an organization.

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The Business Architecture Summit: Lessons from the Mountain

28 March 2018

Establishing business architecture within an organization takes passion, persistence, and patience. Inspired by over a decade and a half of helping organizations to mature their practices — combined with personal mountaineering experiences — this article shares a few lessons for conquering the “business architecture summit” using mountains as metaphor.

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