PRACTICE & VALUE

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

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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How to Build a Business Architecture Playbook

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What We're Reading

A list of helpful resources related to business architecture as well as other complementary disciplines, techniques, and skills.
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Secrets of Socialization: How to Socialize and Build Adoption for Business Architecture

This installment of StraightTalk provides you with loads of practical tips, secrets, and hacks for business architecture socialization based on the collective wisdom of business architecture practitioners around the world.
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Socializing and Building Adoption for Business Architecture

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The Business Architecture Toolbox

A compilation of complementary tools, techniques and resources valuable for the practice of business architecture – sourced from you, the global business architecture community!
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Partners In Change: How Change Management and Business Architecture Work Together

This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of organizational change management and how it works together with business architecture, guest starring Ken Williams.
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Organizational Change Management Across Strategy Execution

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Survey: Common Pain Points Experienced Within Business Architecture Practices

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10-Minutes with Ken Williams: How Change Management and Business Architecture Work Together to Help Organizations

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