PRACTICE & VALUE

Part 1 of 3 – How To Succeed With Business Architecture: Wisdom From Business Architecture Practice Leaders

Whynde Kuehn discusses how to succeed in business architecture with her guests — business architecture practice leaders — Theresa Fannin, Grant Ecker, and Chris Jarvis.

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Part 2 of 3 – How To Succeed With Business Architecture: Wisdom From Business Architecture Practice Leaders

Whynde Kuehn discusses how to succeed in business architecture with her guests — business architecture practice leaders — Coen de Bruijn, Linda Finley, and Steven Scott.

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Maximizing Business Architects and the Science of Strengths

17 April 2021

This article, published by Cutter Consortium, provides a small subset of key research findings from the Business Architect Strengths Study. It also describes what these findings mean for most effectively leveraging the unique abilities of business architecture within our organizations.

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Survey: Business Architecture Adoption — Crossing the Chasm (2021)

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Business Architect Strengths: How to Maximize the Impact of Business Architects

15 March 2021

This installment of StraightTalk offers some fresh, data-based insights on the human side of business architecture from the Business Architect Strengths Study. This is a good starting point to help us explore how to leverage our unique strengths and work with others, not only to succeed in the business architect role but also to drive change with business architecture.

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Biz Arch Mastery Announcement: Business Architect Strengths Study

Whynde Kuehn and Pete Cafarchio announce the release of the Business Architects Strength Study, a primary research effort targeted to business architecture practitioners and their executive leaders. For more information, please see bit.ly/strengths-study.

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CliftonStrengths® Theme Comparison: General Population Versus Business Architect Sample

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Business Architecture and the Strategy Journey: Practicing the Art of Business Architecture and Its Role Within the Strategy Journey

18 January 2021

In this installment of StraightTalk, we highlight 10 powerful takeaways from a conversation with Julie Choo, author of THE STRATEGY JOURNEY book, creator of THE STRATEGY JOURNEY Framework, and founder of the Stratability Academy, on how to practice the art of business architecture and how the discipline fits within the broader context of the strategy journey.

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Survey: Business Architect Role Formalization

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The Business Architecture Playbook: How to Build Your Business Architecture Methodology

04 January 2021

As your business architecture team grows and as demand for your business architecture services increases, at some point you may want to seriously consider creating a business architecture playbook. While many teams are not even aware of what a business architecture playbook is, they often experience the challenges that can occur when one is lacking as the discipline scales within their organization.

This installment will break down the what, the why, and the how of building a business architecture playbook, in the usual StraightTalk style.

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