Business Transformation

Bridging Silos With Business Architecture

Business architecture is many different things, capable of delivering many different value propositions to an organization. It is a shared enterprise business language and mental model; a macro business lens for analyzing investments, risks, opportunities, and more; a key component of end-to-end strategy execution; and an important mechanism to bridge and break down silos. Certainly, silos can be necessary for organizations to operate; however, silos can be detrimental to an organization’s success. This article explores the challenges with organizational silos and how business architecture is uniquely qualified to address them.
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Business Model Actions And The Role Of Business Architects

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Business Models Through the Business Architecture Looking Glass – Creating and Using Business Models from a Business Architecture Perspective

This installment of StraightTalk is a business architecture take on business models, which explores what it means to leverage business models using a business architecture mindset as well as the role and value of business architects in creating and using business models.
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Translating Strategy Into Initiatives With Business Architecture

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Leveraging Business Architecture to Build a Sustainable and Resilient Organization

This SlideShare explores key concepts and principles of resilient and sustainable organizations and business ecosystems, using the natural world as our guide. It also explores how business and enterprise architecture can be leveraged to build resilient and sustainable organizations, focusing on their role in assessment, design and transformation to future state.
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Big Ideas From Nature: How Business Architecture can Help Build Resilient Organizations

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The Unexpected Part 4: Expect the Unexpected — How Business Architecture Can Help to Build Resilient and Adaptable Organizations

This is the fourth and final installment of a multi-part StraightTalk series on how business architecture can help organizations prepare for, respond to, recover from and build resilience for the unexpected.
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Guiding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence With Business Design (SlideShare)

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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Guiding Initiative Prioritization and Planning

Explore how business architecture can be leveraged to guide initiative prioritization and planning.
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The Gateway to Successful Digital Transformation

Explore how to leverage business architecture for digital readiness and transformation.