Launching Your Business Architecture Career

3 practitioners on their business architecture journey

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05 April 2020

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15 June 2024

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Launch your business architecture journey and career with guidance from this collection of essential resources.

Launch your business architecture journey and career with guidance from this collection of essential resources. These resources help you understand the business architect role, how to grow into it and what is possible.

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What Makes Business Architects Unique

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The Artist In You: The Journey of a Business Architect

19 June 2017

So what does a business architect do anyway? There are three focus areas of the business architect role in any organization: applying business architecture to various scenarios (a.k.a. “architecting”), building the business architecture knowledgebase and creating the business architecture practice infrastructure.

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In Search of Greatness: How to Find or Be a Great Business Architect

03 September 2018

What makes a “great” business architect is a topic of much curiosity and debate. So this installment of StraightTalk is about you, business architect, and what makes you tick.

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Good to Great: How to Become a Great Business Architect

17 September 2018

This installment of StraightTalk is a follow-on from our previous post on what makes a great business architect. Let’s get actionable on what we talked about last time.

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Business Architect Strengths: How to Maximize the Impact of Business Architects

15 March 2021

This installment of StraightTalk offers some fresh, data-based insights on the human side of business architecture from the Business Architect Strengths Study. This is a good starting point to help us explore how to leverage our unique strengths and work with others, not only to succeed in the business architect role but also to drive change with business architecture.

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Business Architect Strengths Study Brief

14 March 2021

The innovative Business Architect Strengths Study uncovers insights that can help business architects, their executives, and the industry maximize the impact of business architecture. This brief highlights the findings and provides a link to a downloadable 2-page summary.

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The Business Architect Imperative: Showing Up With Wow

18 November 2019

As a newer role on the scene, working in a business world ubiquitous with design, digital, agile and other emerging concepts, the way we show up as business architects matters a lot. Because everything we do and say demonstrates to others what business architecture really is, and we need to be relevant and distinguish ourselves. The success of a business architect then is not just in what we know or what we do — but in our Ways of Working (WOWs), which this installment of StraightTalk explores.

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The Ways Of Working (WOWs) For A Successful Business Architect

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Key Competencies For Business Architects

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An All-Star Cast: Building a Business Architecture Team – Take 1

03 July 2017

Okay, thanks to Post No. 6 we know all about business architects. Now let’s talk about how we assemble them into an all-star cast to make magic.

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The Business Architecture Team

30 November 2017

This essential white paper provides practical guidance and useful best practices to successfully establish a business architecture team within an organization. The work is based on more than a decade and a half of firsthand experience with business architecture teams around the world, as well as work with various industry bodies and thought leaders. This comprehensive guide addresses top questions business architecture leaders and practitioners typically ask, and provides the necessary guidance for a successful business architecture journey. Original Publish Date: 30 November 2017

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The Evolution of the Business Architect

03 July 2017

In this white paper, industry thought leaders Mike Clark and Whynde Kuehn establish a blueprint for the evolution of business architecture and the business architect role for business architecture practitioners, for organizations, and for the business architecture discipline overall. Original Publish Date: 3 July 2017

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The Evolution of the Business Architect

13 September 2017

The way we interact with business is changing, from online to offline. Organizations are going through fundamental upheaval. At the heart of this change is the business architect. This article, appearing in CIO online, IDG Communications leading business technology magazine, summarizes a white paper by Mike Clark and Whynde Kuehn with the same title.

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Leveraging Business Architecture: 3 Predictions Pointing to New Relevance and Leadership

05 February 2020

This visionary article discusses the areas in which business architecture will continue to play a key role and illustrates how three specific scenarios will lead the way to expanded relevance and leadership. It lays out what this might mean for practitioners, along with the steps needed to realize these benefits.

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Organizing For Success: Building a Business Architecture Team – Take 2

17 July 2017

Post No. 8 is all about answering those burning questions around organizational structure and such. Here goes.

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Conquering The Business Architecture Summit — Lessons from the Mountain for Establishing a Business Architecture Practice

01 March 2018

In this engaging white paper, Whynde Kuehn, thought leader and accomplished climber, applies metaphors of mountaineering and a formidable mountain to articulate the vision of what is possible with business architecture and shares wisdom on how to achieve success.

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10-Minutes With Jeff Dols: The Concept of Servant Leadership and Business Architecture

Whynde Kuehn has a conversation with experienced business architect Jeff Dols on adopting a servant-leader mindset and how the characteristics of a servant-leader can benefit business architects to be more effective and far-reaching in their impact on organizations.

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20-Minutes With Gary Wright: The Concept of Life Architecture

Whynde Kuehn, the founder of S2E Transformation, interviews entrepreneur, innovator, and business architect Gary Wright on the concept of Life Architecture — a framework that allows one to evaluate their personal strengths and weaknesses when life changes suddenly.

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Servant First: How Servant Leadership Makes Business Architects More Impactful

16 December 2019

This installment of StraightTalk describes what servant leadership is, why it is so important, and how servant-leader characteristics can help business architects to become more successful.

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Life Architecture: Bringing An Intentional Approach to Personal Improvement

06 January 2020

This installment of StraightTalk explores the concept of life architecture – which is all about bringing structure and intention to our own lives and personal improvement – inspired by an amazing human story.

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