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Business Architecture Integration: Integrating Business Architecture Into The Enterprise

31 May 2017
This essential white paper provides a simplified and consolidated summary of how business architecture interacts with a common set of teams within an organization, reflective of the most recent industry advancements and consensus. This work also offers an overview of how to perform business architecture integration activities with other teams. Original Publish Date: 31 May 2017
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The Strategy Execution Metanoia: A New Approach for Translating Strategy Into Action With Business Architecture

30 April 2017
In today’s highly competitive business environment where constant change is the new normal, the imperative for unified business direction has never been more important. Yet all-too-many enterprises have siloed business practices. These isolated business units, product lines, or other organizational constructs hamstring strategic execution that in turn leads to sub-optimal customer experiences, expensive redundancy, increased time to market and reduced competitiveness. What if strategy execution were approached from an enterprise perspective instead of in silos? This essential white paper explores business architecture as a means to integrated business direction that is collectively architected, prioritized and planned from a business-driven, top-down approach. Original Publish Date: 30 April 2017
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The Value of Business Architecture: New Mindset, New Results

31 March 2017
The need for business architecture has never been greater than it is now. Most organizations have evolved to become tremendously complex structures, which are now colliding with a world where constant change is the new normal. This in-depth, essential white paper explores how business architecture is essential for simplifying organizations and enabling a more effective approach to executing business direction. Original Publish Date: 31 March 2017 Revised: 12 March 2018
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Enabling Strategy Execution: An Executive Perspective

This video from the Business Architecture Guild(R), presented by Co-Founders Whynde Kuehn and William Ulrich, articulates the role of business architecture in strategy execution. This 10-minute video provides inspiration and ideas for making the case and is also suitable to be shared directly with executives and other non-business architecture professionals.
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The Secret: What Business Architecture Is Really About and Why It Can Be So Hard

16 March 2020
What is business architecture really about? And why can it be so hard for others to understand its value and see what business architects see? This installment of StraightTalk aims to provide some context for what happens to many of us on a daily basis and why. The ideas shared here are just a start and should be considered as the beginning of a conversation for us to come together around messaging and a movement that can help fuel the adoption of 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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We Are Family: Integrating Business Architecture Into the Enterprise

05 June 2017
The bottom line is that to be successful, business architects cannot work as an isolated function. It’s not about creating enterprise maps and expecting magic to happen when people see them. Business architects work within a bigger ecosystem and must always remain cognizant of their role as an enabler of other teams.
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The Strategy Execution Metanoia: Translating Strategy Into Action With Business Architecture

01 May 2017
“Houston, we have a problem.” “Uh, this is Houston. Uh, say again please.” We have a strategy execution problem. Remember that whole deal in Post No. 2 about how constant change is the new normal as customer expectations increase and the external environment evolves at an escalating pace? That means the ability for organizations to get their ideas—things like strategies, transformations, innovations and regulatory changes—into action has never been more important than it is right now.
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Start With Why: The Value of Business Architecture

17 April 2017
Why should we do business architecture? Good one. That’s the million-dollar question. Simon Sinek says, “Start With Why.” A big part of the answer is not just why business architecture is so important, but why it is so important now, so we’ll start there.
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The Unexplained Mystery of Business Architecture: What is Business Architecture

03 April 2017
According to the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), “Business Architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to-end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders.”
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