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The Composable Business: Business Architecture as an Organization’s Common Business Components

07 December 2020

What’s a composable business? Composable means modularity. This installment of StraightTalk describes why modularity is beneficial to organizations and how business architecture serves as THE common, reusable business components for an organization.

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Products As Seen Through the Business Architecture Lens

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Leveraging Business Architecture for Technology-Related Decisions

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Decisions, Decisions — The Technology Edition: How Business Architecture Facilitates Better Technology-Related Decisions

17 October 2020

Business architecture is an excellent framework for informing decisions of all kinds. In this installment of StraightTalk, we explore just a few ideas for how business architecture can be leveraged to inform technology-related decisions, including technology assessment, selection, design, planning and management.

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Guiding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence With Business Design (SlideShare)

04 May 2020

This SlideShare overview by Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark explores the opportunities and implications for artificial intelligence, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action.

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