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Business Architecture In Action For Risk and Compliance Management — How Business Architecture Helps Organizations Identify and React to Risk and Compliance Challenges

02 April 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take another look at business architecture in action—this time to help organizations manage risk and compliance.

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Business Architecture In Action For Product Management — How Business Architecture Enables Better Product Investment, Planning and Solutions

19 March 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take a look at business architecture in action for common business scenarios, this time with a focus on product management.

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Business Architecture: Lessons from the Trenches: Case Studies on Successful, Established Business Architecture Practices

This webinar explores how a cross-section of organizations are deploying and leveraging business architecture in a variety of ways, across a number of industries.

This webinar is published by Cutter Consortium (Requires Cutter membership).

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Architect the World, Part 2 — Business Architecture For Non-Profit Organizations

18 December 2017

In the generous spirit of the holidays, this installment of StraightTalk looks at using business architecture within the context of non-profit organizations.

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Architect the World, Part 1 — Business Architecture For Startups & Small Business

04 December 2017

In this installment of StraightTalk, we’re going to look at using business architecture for startups and small businesses. Let’s go.

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Left Brain Meet Right Brain—The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience

20 November 2017

Get ready for a great StraightTalk installment. In this installment, we explore a topic that everyone wants to know about in this age of organizational transformation — customer experience.

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Business Architecture Best Practices with Whynde Kuehn

In this video segment, Whynde Kuehn, a major force in the business architecture arena, discusses the state of the industry and provides tips and techniques for founding and running a business architecture practice.

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5-Minutes with Mike Clark: The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience

Whynde Kuehn interviews customer experience (CX) guru Mike Clark on the interconnectedness of business architecture and CX.

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Untangling Customer Journeys, Value Chains, Value Streams, and Business Processes

07 November 2017

This article discusses four often confused organizational views: customer journeys, value chains, value streams, and business processes. On the surface, each of these business artifacts may appear to have some similar elements, such as the business vocabulary they use or the fact that they represent some concept of “flow.” However, as this article clarifies, all four views differ in both intention and representation and thus should be clearly differentiated from each other.

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BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 2 — How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation

06 November 2017

This post is the second one in our two-part series exploring how business architecture and IT architecture really are BFF (Best Friends Forever).

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