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Accelerating Business Architecture: Building the Knowledgebase

08 May 2018

Organizations that desire to leverage business architecture for transformation, better strategy execution, or various types of decision making need to build their business architecture knowledgebase first before they can fully benefit from the discipline. This is part one of a three-part series of articles that describe how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. This article focuses on building the knowledgebase.

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Speedy Business Architecture, Part 2 — Accelerating Business Architecture Development With Tools

05 March 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about how we can leverage tools for accelerating the development of a business architecture knowledgebase.

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Speedy Business Architecture, Part 1 — Accelerating Business Architecture Development With Reference Models

19 February 2018

We know that the business architecture knowledgebase is fundamental to the enterprise insights, analysis and ways of designing that are unique only to architecture. But how do we build our knowledgebase fast—especially if we’re just starting our business architecture practice? In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about how we can leverage reference models to accelerate the development of a business architecture knowledgebase, so here goes.

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A Map of the World, Part 1: Back to School With Mapping the Core Business Architecture Foundation

18 September 2017

Okay, time to go back to business architecture school. Having our business architecture written down is at the heart of us being able to do cool stuff with it, so we better talk a little more about mapping it out.

In this StraighTalk installment, we’re going to talk about the “core” business architecture domains. That means those four boxes in the middle of our favorite diagram below.

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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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What is Business Architecture? Business Architecture Simplified and Differentiated

20 March 2017

Even though formalization has taken root in the discipline, confusion still exists about what business architecture really is—and is not. This tight, well-organized, essential white paper assists the reader in cutting through the myriad of content available on the topic of business architecture. This publication is intended for Business Architecture Practice Leaders and Practitioners. It is also helpful for executives or any other business or IT roles who would like to gain a more in-depth understanding of business architecture. Original Publish Date: 20 Mar 2017 Revised: 25 April 2018.

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