Socialization & Adoption

Living The Dream: How to Integrate Business Architecture With Strategy Execution

This marks the 50th installment of StraightTalk, and we’re returning to our roots. Waaay back in Post No. 3, we introduced a new vision for strategy execution and explored how business architecture could help to enable it. We called it the Strategy Execution Metanoia, because a metanoia is a transformational moment – when you see the world in a different way and can’t go back.
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Business Politecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Adoption Challenges

In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore another important topic to making a business architecture practice successful: business politecture. Yep, that is business architecture + politics = business politecture.
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Business Marketecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Socialization Challenges

In this installment, we will straight talk on one of everyone’s favorite topics: how to socialize and build buy-in for business architecture within an organization. Yep, we’re talking about business architecture + marketing = business marketecture. And sometimes we need a lot of it.
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Building a Case for Business Architecture

Business architecture teams often struggle to articulate the value of business architecture. This article provides guidance on how to develop a case for business architecture and communicate its value to an organization.
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Communicating the Value of Business Architecture

Articulating the value of business architecture within our organizations is one of the most important things that we need to do and do well—the results of which can ultimately determine if business architecture is embraced and how it is positioned. However, this can be a real challenge and barrier to growth for many business architecture practices. This article shares the Do’s and Don’ts for communicating Business Architecture value.
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