Vision, Inspiration & Prediction

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The Secret: What Business Architecture Is Really About and Why It Can Be So Hard

16 March 2020

What is business architecture really about? And why can it be so hard for others to understand its value and see what business architects see? This installment of StraightTalk aims to provide some context for what happens to many of us on a daily basis and why. The ideas shared here are just a start and should be considered as the beginning of a conversation for us to come together around messaging and a movement that can help fuel the adoption of business architecture.

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Leveraging Business Architecture: 3 Predictions Pointing to New Relevance and Leadership

05 February 2020

This visionary article discusses the areas in which business architecture will continue to play a key role and illustrates how three specific scenarios will lead the way to expanded relevance and leadership. It lays out what this might mean for practitioners, along with the steps needed to realize these benefits.

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The Global State of Business Architecture: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

30 December 2019

This article offers advice to business and enterprise architects on taking stock of the global state of business architecture. Whether you are thinking over your organization’s business architecture practice or your own business architecture career, having an awareness of the bigger picture is vital for comparison and inspiration.

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We Are The World: A Global Snapshot of Business Architecture Today and Trending

02 December 2019

As we’re nearing the end of another trip around the sun, it’s a good time to reflect on our global business architecture community, the discipline and to look forward and dream. This installment of StraightTalk provides some food for thought as you do your own reflections, both individually as well as perhaps with your internal business architecture team and even your local community.

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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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Enterprise Architecture: Key Business Priorities and Success Factors for 2019

13 February 2019

This article acknowledges that enterprise architecture has come a long way in recent years by providing an enterprise perspective and needed structured thinking to business-critical activities, but still has a ways to go in delivering on its intended value proposition. It lays out eight key business priorities that enterprise architecture teams should consider in 2019 and describes how the discipline can add value to each priority.

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Crystal Ball as of 2018: Business Architecture Now + A Glimpse Into the Future

08 June 2018

We’re starting this promising new year with a look at where we’re at with business architecture and where we’re going in the future to inspire those New Year’s resolutions.

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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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Conquering The Business Architecture Summit — Lessons from the Mountain for Establishing a Business Architecture Practice

01 March 2018

In this engaging white paper, Whynde Kuehn, thought leader and accomplished climber, applies metaphors of mountaineering and a formidable mountain to articulate the vision of what is possible with business architecture and shares wisdom on how to achieve success.

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Momentum for Business Architecture

05 February 2018

While business architecture will continue to play an essential role in the success of organizations, business architects should challenge themselves to be not only architects, but also leaders and change agents — and develop value-added skills that complement the business architect role. This article provides a few key predictions for how the business architecture discipline will unfold over the next horizon based on the current business architecture state and trends.

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