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5-Minutes with William Ulrich: How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation

Whynde Kuehn interviews business architecture leader William Ulrich on how business and IT architecture relate in this StraightTalk podcast.

Podcast

BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 1 — How Business Architecture Fits Within the Context of Enterprise Architecture

16 October 2017

We’ve been very business-focused in our StraightTalk so far—and intentionally so. But a business architect always has a foot in two different worlds: one as part of the business and the other as part of the enterprise architecture team. So, for the next two posts, we are going to focus on how business architecture relates to IT architecture, and we’ll see how these two really are BFF (Best Friends Forever). Business architecture provides the business context and direction, and IT architecture makes it real through automated solutions.

StraightTalk Post

5-Minutes with Mike Rosen: Understanding Enterprise and Business Architecture

Whynde Kuehn, founder of S2E Transformation, conducts a podcast interview with industry thought leader Mike Rosen on understanding enterprise and business architecture.

Podcast

Making the Customer Experience Real with Business Architecture

20 September 2017

This article provides an overview of the benefits and integration points between customer experience design and business architecture, two mutually beneficial disciplines, both critical to customer centricity and transformation.

Article

Business Architecture: Lessons from the Trenches

13 September 2017

This article overviews a success story from a global apparel firm which leveraged business architecture to inform product management decision-making.

Article

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Business Architecture In Action For Mergers & Acquisitions: How Business Architecture Helps Assess and Integrate Organizations During Mergers and Acquisitions

04 September 2017

Here we go one more time looking at business architecture in action. This time we’re going to focus on how business architecture helps to assess and integrate organizations during mergers and acquisitions.

StraightTalk Post

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Business Architecture In Action For Investment Decisions: How Business Architecture Facilitates Decision-Making for Project and Application Portfolio Management

21 August 2017

Keeping with our theme of business architecture in action, this post focuses on how business architecture helps with analysis, rationalization and decision-making related to project investments (a.k.a. project portfolio management) and system applications (a.k.a application rationalization and application portfolio management).

StraightTalk Post

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Business Architecture In Action For Business Transformation: How Business Architecture Enables Enterprise-Level Change Initiatives

07 August 2017

This post focuses on the significant role that business architecture plays in making business transformation a reality.

StraightTalk Post

Business Architecture’s Role in Establishing the Cognitive Enterprise

02 August 2017

Industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and William Ulrich teamed up to create a four-part series highlighting business architecture’s role as a critical enabler of organizations to effectively operate, transform, and compete. This is part four (with Ulrich as primary author) and focuses on the role of business architecture's role in establishing a cognitive enterprise.

Article

Business Architecture: Critical for Digital Transformation

05 July 2017

Industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and William Ulrich teamed up to create a four-part series highlighting business architecture’s role as a critical enabler of organizations to effectively operate, transform, and compete. This is part three (with Kuehn as primary author) and focuses on the critical role business architecture plays in digital transformation.

Article