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Common Ways of Leveraging Business Architecture For Enterprise Decision Making

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Assessing Business Architecture

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

20 January 2020
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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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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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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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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You Complete Me: How Business Architecture and Business Process Fit Together

03 December 2018
In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore another BFF of business architecture: business process. These two critical disciplines can—and should—work together in many ways as they are essential to helping organizations react to change and operate effectively. We will cover some of the key concepts here.
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Making the Grade: Assessing Business Architecture

21 May 2018
In this installment of StraightTalk, we are going to look at a topic of increasing interest and practice: business architecture assessments.
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