Digital Transformation

Semper Paratus (Always Ready): Digital Readiness and How Business Architecture Can Accelerate Preparedness

21 October 2019

This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of digital readiness: what it is, how we measure it, how we get there – and how business architecture can accelerate that journey.

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15-Minutes With Dr. Frank Granito: Digital Readiness and How Business Architecture Can Accelerate Preparedness

Whynde Kuehn interviews Dr. Frank Granito, Chief Scientist, Partner, and Institute Fellow at the Institute for Digital Transformation on the concept of digital readiness and the critical role business architecture can serve in accelerating an organization's preparedness for digital transformation.

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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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Evolving the Organizational DNA, Part 3: How Business Architecture Can Enable Ethical Decision Making and Actions

16 September 2019

This is the third and final installment in a series on how business architecture can be used to catalyze, embed and enforce key sustainability, legal and ethical considerations into an organization’s DNA. In this StraightTalk post, we explore how organizations can leverage business architecture to ensure ethical decision-making and actions.

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A Keystone for Digital Readiness

07 February 2019

Your organization has been researching what digital transformation means, speaking with vendors about digital strategies and solutions, maybe even trying to find applications for artificial intelligence or other emerging technologies, and implementing agile approaches. But are you really ready for digital transformation? This article explores what digital readiness means and how business architecture is a keystone and critical starting point for digital readiness in your organization.

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The Gateway to Successful Digital Transformation

07 February 2019

Digital transformation is a fundamental business change that also requires a rewiring of the way an organization operates. An often-overlooked discipline — business architecture — can facilitate the critical bridge between strategy and execution, as well as offer an enabling instrument for digital transformation within an organization. This article describes how the discipline can be a gateway to successful, business-driven digital transformation.

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The Future is Distributed and Decentralized: How Business Architecture Helps Organizations Leverage Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology

07 January 2019

In this installment of StraightTalk, we explore another topic relevant to our digital future: blockchain and distributed ledger technology. We explore how business architecture can help organizations to leverage blockchain and distributed ledger technology for value.

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5-Minutes with Josué Batista: How Business Architecture Can Help To Leverage Blockchain

Whynde Kuehn interviews business and technology strategist Josué Batista on how business architecture can be used to leverage blockchain—an exciting emerging technology (also known as distributed ledger technology or DLT) that provides immutable data in a highly secure and encrypted manner for a host of industries and business applications.

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From Alpha to Zero: How Business Architecture Helps Organizations Leverage Artificial Intelligence

17 December 2018

Business architecture is front and center to helping organizations prepare for a digital future. In this installment of StraightTalk, we explore how business architecture can help organizations to harness this artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.

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