Risk Management

Preparing to Navigate the Unexpected: Leveraging Business Architecture for Better Business Continuity Planning

In this white paper, co-authors Gary Wright and Whynde Kuehn describe how business architecture can be used as a guide for business continuity planning. Original Publish Date: 30 April 2020.
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The Unexpected, Part 2: Preparation — Leveraging Business Architecture to Prepare for the Unexpected

This is the second installment of a multi-part StraightTalk series on how business architecture can help an organization prepare for, respond to, recover from and build resilience for the unexpected. The unexpected may include an incident caused by an organization (e.g., an accident or data breach) or one that has happened to it (e.g., a natural disaster). This installment is focused on preparedness.
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How Business Architecture Helps Organizations To Prepare For, Respond To, And Recover From The Unexpected – PRE-INCIDENT

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How Business Architecture Helps Organizations To Prepare For, Respond To And Recover From The Unexpected – INCIDENT

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The Unexpected, Part 1: Response – Leveraging Business Architecture to Respond to the Unexpected

This installment of StraightTalk kicks off a series on how business architecture can help an organization prepare for, respond to, recover from and build resilience for the unexpected. It's focus is on enabling response to a major incident.
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How Business Architecture Breaks Down And Bridges Silos

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Business Architecture Enables Organizational Sustainability

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Common Ways of Leveraging Business Architecture For Enterprise Decision Making

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Mind The Gap: How Business Architecture Breaks Down and Bridges Silos

Silos are in many ways just inherently human, but unchecked, they can become detrimental to an organization’s success. Business architecture is uniquely qualified to break down and bridge silos, as this installment explores.
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Evolving the Organizational DNA, Part 1: How Business Architecture Can Enable Organizational Sustainability

This installment of StraightTalk is the first in a series that focuses on how business architecture can be used to catalyze, embed and enforce key sustainability, legal and ethical considerations into an organization’s DNA. Using business architecture in this way truly unlocks its value and power. First up in our series: how business architecture can enable organizational sustainability, so here goes.
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