Establish the Foundation

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Being on the SAFe Side: How Business Architecture and Agile Fit Together

07 May 2018

This installment gives the straight talk on what all of this agile stuff means and how business architecture can help.

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The Canvas Awaits — How Business Models and Business Architecture Fit Together

16 April 2018

Get ready for some StraightTalk on a topic we all love: business models. In this installment, we talk about what they are and how they are BFF (Best Friends Forever) with business architecture.

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Business Architecture In Action For Product Management — How Business Architecture Enables Better Product Investment, Planning and Solutions

19 March 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take a look at business architecture in action for common business scenarios, this time with a focus on product management.

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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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Left Brain Meet Right Brain—The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience

20 November 2017

Get ready for a great StraightTalk installment. In this installment, we explore a topic that everyone wants to know about in this age of organizational transformation — customer experience.

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5-Minutes with Mike Clark: The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience

Whynde Kuehn interviews customer experience (CX) guru Mike Clark on the interconnectedness of business architecture and CX.

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Untangling Customer Journeys, Value Chains, Value Streams, and Business Processes

07 November 2017

This article discusses four often confused organizational views: customer journeys, value chains, value streams, and business processes. On the surface, each of these business artifacts may appear to have some similar elements, such as the business vocabulary they use or the fact that they represent some concept of “flow.” However, as this article clarifies, all four views differ in both intention and representation and thus should be clearly differentiated from each other.

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BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 2 — How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation

06 November 2017

This post is the second one in our two-part series exploring how business architecture and IT architecture really are BFF (Best Friends Forever).

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5-Minutes with William Ulrich: How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation

Whynde Kuehn interviews business architecture leader William Ulrich on how business and IT architecture relate in this StraightTalk podcast.

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