Measuring Results & ROI

How to Build a Successful Business Architecture Practice

This article, authored by Whynde Kuehn and published in IRK UK Connects, explores globally proven best practices and approaches for building a strategic business architecture practice within an organization.
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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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7 Practices of Successful Business Architecture Teams — How to Succeed With Business Architecture: Wisdom from Practice Leaders

How does an organization really succeed with business architecture? In this epic installment of StraightTalk, we explore that question with nine different business architecture practice leaders from around the word. They each give the straight talk on how to position business architecture, how to deliver real business value and outcomes with it, how to gain buy-in and shift mindsets, and how to start and grow an internal practice within an organization. This installment is based on a very special 3-part podcast series, which contains individual interviews with each one of them.
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Starting a Business Architecture Practice

Learn everything you need to know to start a successful business architecture practice and accelerate your journey.
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Measuring Business Architecture Success

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ROBAI - Return on Business Architecture Investment

How do we calculate the return on investment (ROI) of a business architecture practice within an organization?
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Business Architecture: What’s the ROI?

This article offers business architect practitioners a valuable approach for calculating ROBAI (Return on Business Architecture Investment) designed to equip business architecture teams with the ability to demonstrate their value and impact across the organization.
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Return On Business Architecture Investment (ROBAI): How to Calculate the ROI of Business Architecture

In this installment of StraightTalk, we will focus on one of those burning questions: how do we calculate the return on investment (ROI) of a business architecture practice within an organization? We will explore a method for determining the ROI of a business architecture practice that you can put into use ASAP. The intention here is to provide a place to start and give you some ideas, but hopefully, inspire many more of your own.
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Measuring Business Architecture Success

One of the most frequent questions business architecture leaders and practitioners ask is about how to measure the success of a business architecture practice. How do we quantify it? How do we prove its value? This article describes the benefits and challenges of measuring business architecture success and provides some practical approaches that can be used to accomplish this very important activity.
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By The Numbers: How To Measure Business Architecture Success

In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about one of those million dollar questions: how to measure business architecture success.
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