PRACTICE & VALUE

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.

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.

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.

The way we interact with business is changing, from online to offline. Organizations are going through fundamental upheaval. At the heart of this change is the business architect. This article, appearing in CIO online, IDG Communications leading business technology magazine, summarizes a white paper by Mike Clark and Whynde Kuehn with the same title.

In this white paper, industry thought leaders Mike Clark and Whynde Kuehn establish a blueprint for the evolution of business architecture and the business architect role for business architecture practitioners, for organizations, and for the business architecture discipline overall. Original Publish Date: 3 July 2017