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Establish the Foundation

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A Win-Win Situation: How to Get Some Business Architecture Quick Wins

22 July 2019
In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore some ways that you can start putting business architecture into use ASAP to provide business value — while you continue to build up your knowledgebase and pursue more complex usage scenarios over time. The intention here is to give you some starter ideas that inspire you to create many more of your own.
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Us and Us: “The Business Architecture of IT”

17 June 2019
Once business architecture starts getting traction within an organization, there often comes a question: “Does IT have a business architecture?” This installment of StraightTalk explores this concept of “the business architecture of IT.”
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Visual Business Architecture: Approaching the Discipline Differently

10 June 2019
The need for business architecture in organizations has never been greater than it is today, as organizations must continually sense and respond to opportunity and change. Though the business architecture discipline continues to gain traction at an ever-increasing pace, how the discipline is practiced is critical for its adoption and effectiveness. This article provides an overview of the importance of using visual techniques as part of a business architecture practice and highlights three aspects: visual design, graphic recording and facilitation, as well as storytelling.
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Ecosystem Is The New Organization: How Business Architecture #Capabilities and #ValueStreams Can Connect Everything

03 June 2019
In this StraightTalk installment, we will explore how business architecture can help to architect ecosystems. The idea of business ecosystems is a huge topic unto itself, so we’ll highlight a few key ideas here in our usual StraightTalk style and then let you dream big.
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Putting the Pieces Together: Business Objects As The Glue For A Business Architecture

20 May 2019
In this installment of StraightTalk, we return to the idea of business objects, and the important role they play throughout an organization’s business architecture – and why it matters. We will do some serious condensing here of the BIZBOK® Guide to help you put the pieces together and understand how it all works. Why? Well, not for the sake of theory. That’s not what StraightTalk is about. We’re about helping to build a common understanding so that we can all move forward in unison. And architect great things for our organizations and societies, which is the point.
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What’s In A Word: How to Create a Capability Map That Unlocks New Value

06 May 2019
This StraightTalk installment shines a light on the realities of capability mapping and helps us to interpret some key concepts in the BIZBOK® Guide in an effort to move us forward in unison and architect great things for our organizations and societies.
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5-Minutes with Alex Randell: The Relationship Between Business Architecture and Agile

Whynde Kuehn and Business Architect, Alex Randell, explore how business architecture and agile processes can work together for improved delivery of products and services.
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Living The Dream: How to Integrate Business Architecture With Strategy Execution

15 April 2019
This marks the 50th installment of StraightTalk, and we’re returning to our roots. Waaay back in Post No. 3, we introduced a new vision for strategy execution and explored how business architecture could help to enable it. We called it the Strategy Execution Metanoia, because a metanoia is a transformational moment – when you see the world in a different way and can’t go back.
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Dos and Don’ts For Establishing a Business Architecture Practice

01 April 2019
This installment gives you the straight talk on some serious dos and don’ts for establishing a business architecture practice within an organization. We’ll ground our conversation by reflecting on a fundamental concept of the business architecture discipline — often misunderstood — that will assist in guiding you and help you to stay on the right path.
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Seeing Is Believing, Part 3 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Storytelling for Greater Success

18 March 2019
Welcome to the third and last installment of our epic visual and storytelling StraightTalk series, in which we explore the power of story. We know that in order to succeed as business architects, it’s not just about creating architectures and ideas for the future – we also need to convey those ideas, influence others, and incite action. Enter storytelling.
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