Business & IT Alignment

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Business Architecture and Digital Transformation

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Business & IT Architecture Transformation Framework

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How Business Architecture Fits Within Enterprise Architecture

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Business Design Identifies and Points to the Data

18 February 2020

This article by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark articulates the role of business design in not only helping to identify the data that will power AI but also ensuring that all appropriate guardrails have been considered and are put in place.

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Guiding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence With Business Design

19 December 2019

Senior leaders are feeling the push from shareholders to continue driving their organizations forward, but is AI the answer? Just because AI is front-page news, is it right for your organization? Are the implications truly understood? These questions and more are crucial for leaders as the AI evolution continues to shape the next wave of work. Clearly, AI will profoundly transform our lives in the years ahead. Finding the balance between opportunity and implications is key to our success as well as to our future.

This executive report, written by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark, explores these opportunities and implications, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action.

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Envisioning The Future Organization: How Business Architecture Can Help Organizations To Become A Cognitive Enterprise

07 October 2019

Going digital: It’s on everyone’s mind. And business architecture can help. So, in this installment of StraightTalk, we’ll explore the concept of a cognitive enterprise: what it means, a vision of what can be, how to get there, and the important role business architecture plays to make it real.

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10-Minutes With William Ulrich: How Business Architecture Can Help Organizations to Become A Cognitive Enterprise

Whynde Kuehn, S2E Transformation founder, interviews business architecture leader William Ulrich on how business architecture can enable and support a cognitive enterprise.

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Decisions, Decisions: How Business Architecture Facilitates Better Decision-Making

01 July 2019

In this installment of StraightTalk, we’ll take another look at business architecture in action. This time, we’ll focus on how it can be used as a framework for better decision-making. The intention here is to give you some examples of how you can use business architecture to support different types of decision-making within your organization. We’re confident these will inspire many more ideas of your own.

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Us and Us: “The Business Architecture of IT”

17 June 2019

Once business architecture starts getting traction within an organization, there often comes a question: “Does IT have a business architecture?” This installment of StraightTalk explores this concept of “the business architecture of IT.”

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10-Minutes with Bryan Lail & Steve DuPont: Alignment of the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Framework with the BIZBOK® Guide

Whynde Kuehn, S2E Transformation founder, interviews two leading business architecture practitioners, Bryan Lail and Steve DuPont (both Certified Business Architects® from the Business Architecture Guild®), on key aspects about the TOGAF®–BIZBOK® Guide alignment.

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