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Consultants Saying Things About Business Architecture

In this episode, the Consultants Saying Things cast (Chris Lockhart, Phil Yanov, Oliver Cronk, and Whynde Kuehn), unpack business architecture including:
- What the heck IS Business Architecture anyway?
- How is it practiced? What are the methods and frameworks?
- What benefits does it provide? Who in the company should care?
- What are good examples of Business Architecture practice? What are bad ones?
- How does Business Architecture relate to Enterprise Architecture?
- How can you, yes YOU, get started in Business Architecture either as an employee in a company or as a consultant?
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Strategy To Execution & Related Team Involvement

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Leveraging Business Architecture to Translate Strategy Into Action (graphic recording version)

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The Strategy Execution Metanoia: A New Approach for Translating Strategy Into Action With Business Architecture

In today’s highly competitive business environment where constant change is the new normal, the imperative for unified business direction has never been more important. Yet all-too-many enterprises have siloed business practices. These isolated business units, product lines, or other organizational constructs hamstring strategic execution that in turn leads to sub-optimal customer experiences, expensive redundancy, increased time to market and reduced competitiveness. What if strategy execution were approached from an enterprise perspective instead of in silos? This essential white paper explores business architecture as a means to integrated business direction that is collectively architected, prioritized and planned from a business-driven, top-down approach. Original Publish Date: 30 April 2017
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The Value of Business Architecture: New Mindset, New Results

The need for business architecture has never been greater than it is now. Most organizations have evolved to become tremendously complex structures, which are now colliding with a world where constant change is the new normal. This in-depth, essential white paper explores how business architecture is essential for simplifying organizations and enabling a more effective approach to executing business direction. Original Publish Date: 31 March 2017 Revised: 12 March 2018
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Lessons From Digital Transformation

Here is a summary of some key lessons from digital transformations learned over any years of leading and living business transformations.
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Survey: Business Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

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Episode 4: Business Architecture Meets Sustainability: Transitioning Towards a Circular Economy (Part II)

This webinar, hosted and facilitated by Daniel Simon of Across and Ahead, features Business Architecture expert Whynde Kuehn and Circular Economy expert Cathrine Barth in the second of two conversations on how organizations to build towards a circular economy.
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Survey: Leveraging Business Architecture For Mergers & Acquisitions

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Architect Tomorrow: Strategy to Reality

In this episode of Architect Tomorrow, Oliver Cronk, Lisa Woodall, and Catherine Pratt sit down with the business architecture leader and author, Whynde Kuehn, to discuss her book Strategy to Reality and the wealth of experience the panel brings in transformation using business architecture.
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