Establish the Foundation

What is Business Architecture Governance Anyway – Take 1

15 October 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we are taking on a big, scary and loaded concept: business architecture governance. The topic is both filled with confusion and lack of information. This is due in part to the relative newness of the business architecture discipline and the current maturity level of most organizations, as well as some of the history inherited from enterprise architecture governance. This is first of two installments on the topic.

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Business Architecture for Superior CX Design

This on-demand webinar reveals how, through the combination of business architecture and customer experience design, organizations can gain more insight into where and how to align and transform their business models so they can focus on the ongoing needs of their customers while driving organizational efficiencies.

This webinar is published by Cutter Consortium and was selected as one of the Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles / Videos for 2018.

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Business Politecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Adoption Challenges

01 October 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore another important topic to making a business architecture practice successful: business politecture. Yep, that is business architecture + politics = business politecture.

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Business Architecture: The Gateway to Transforming an Organization Into an Agile Enterprise

15 September 2018

This white paper by business architecture industry leaders Whynde Kuehn and William Ulrich illustrates how business architecture can be a gateway for an organization to transform itself into an agile enterprise.

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Business Marketecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Socialization Challenges

20 August 2018

In this installment, we will straight talk on one of everyone’s favorite topics: how to socialize and build buy-in for business architecture within an organization. Yep, we’re talking about business architecture + marketing = business marketecture. And sometimes we need a lot of it.

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Power To The People: How to Deal With Business Architecture Resource Challenges

06 August 2018

In this installment, we will be StraightTalkin’ about how to get creative with some tricky business architecture resource challenges. If you’re working on an established business architecture team, this might be just-in-time advice you need. If you are part of a new business architecture practice, you’ll have these ideas in your back pocket in case you need them in the future.

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Leaving a Legacy: How to Deal With Legacy Business Architecture Challenges

16 July 2018

This installment of StraightTalk focuses on how to deal with legacy business architecture challenges (a.k.a. you realize the business architecture knowledgebase you built is not quite right). This is a common situation for business architecture teams which have been at this for awhile—though there are important lessons to heed here for new teams as well.

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How to Deal With Strategy Challenges: Bad Strategy, Non-Strategy, No Strategy

02 July 2018

This post will focus on how to deal with strategy challenges. While there are many common challenges in this space, since we are StraighTalkin’ here, we’ll just lay out some of biggies and then get right to the point on how to deal.

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Making the Grade: Assessing Business Architecture

21 May 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we are going to look at a topic of increasing interest and practice: business architecture assessments.

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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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