5 Apply Business Architecture
- StraightTalk No. 56 – A Win-Win Situation: How to Get Some Business Architecture Quick Wins
- StraightTalk No. 91 – The Business Architecture Playbook: How to Build Your Business Architecture Methodology
- StraightTalk No. 28 – Making the Grade: Assessing Business Architecture
- StraightTalk No. 37 – Business Politecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Adoption Challenges
- StraightTalk No. 46 – Seeing Is Believing, Part 1 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Presentation Design for Greater Success
- 20-Minutes With James Jones: How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Presentation Design for Greater Success podcast
- StraightTalk No. 47 - Seeing Is Believing, Part 2 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Graphic Recording and Facilitation for Greater Success
- 5-Minutes with Sarah Greer: How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Graphic Recording and Facilitation For Greater Success – Part 1 podcast
- 15-Minutes with Michael Pemberton: How Business Architecture Teams Can Leverage Graphic Recording and Facilitation for Greater Success – Part 2 podcast
- StraightTalk No. 48 - Seeing Is Believing, Part 3 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Storytelling for Greater Success
- 15-Minutes with Tamara Park: How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Storytelling For Greater Success podcast
- How to Master the Art of Storytelling video
- StraightTalk No. 64 - The Business Architect Imperative: Showing Up With Wow
- StraightTalk No. 66 - Servant First: How Servant Leadership Makes Business Architects More Impactful
- 10-Minutes With Jeff Dols: The Concept of Servant Leadership and Business Architecture podcast
- Visual Business Architecture: Approaching the Discipline Differently article
- Enterprise Architecture: Key Business Priorities and Success Factors for 2019 article
- Be the Change: Disrupting Business Architecture article
Other Resources and Activities
- Refer back to Step 2 for ideas of business architecture usage scenarios.
- Find some articles and resources that will help you to Make the Case for Business Architecture
- Browse the presentations from previous Business Architecture Innovation Summits shared by other organizations demonstrating how they have leveraged business architecture for value (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Refer to the BIZBOK® Guide and business architecture Recorded Webinars as applicable
- Share your business architecture success stories with the community
- Join Biz Arch Mastery's Inner Circle program for ongoing coaching and community interaction, tailored for you. Learn more on the Join page and watch the brief introduction video for an overview.
- Get some help on your journey with the Business Architecture Advisory Services service offering and/or assistance with a Business Architecture Engagement
6 Expand and Refine Knowledgebase
Core Business Architecture Mapping and Evolution
- StraightTalk No. 12 – A Map of the World, Part 1: Back to School With Mapping the Core Business Architecture Foundation
- StraightTalk No. 85 – Demystifying An Organization: The Business Architecture Take on Organization Mapping
- StraightTalk No.49 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Dos and Don’ts For Establishing a Business Architecture Practice
- StraightTalk No.32 – Leaving a Legacy: How to Deal With Legacy Business Architecture Challenges
Mapping the Extended Business Architecture Domains
- StraightTalk No.13 – A Map of the World, Part 2: Back to School With Mapping the Extended Business Architecture
- StraightTalk No.31 – How to Deal With Strategy Challenges: Bad Strategy, Non-Strategy, No Strategy
- StraightTalk No.26 – The Canvas Awaits — How Business Models and Business Architecture Fit Together
- 5-Minutes with Linda Finley: How Business Models Work with Business Architecture podcast
- StraightTalk No. 80 – Business Models Through the Business Architecture Looking Glass
- Linking Business Models with Business Architecture to Drive Innovation Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- StraightTalk No.24 – Business Architecture In Action For Product Management — How Business Architecture Enables Better Product Investment, Planning and Solutions
- StraightTalk No.58 – Evolving the Organizational DNA, Part 1: How Business Architecture Can Enable Organizational Sustainability
- StraightTalk No.59 – Evolving the Organizational DNA, Part 2: How Business Architecture Can Enable Policy Making and Compliance
- StraightTalk No.60 – Evolving the Organizational DNA, Part 3: How Business Architecture Can Enable Ethical Decision Making and Actions
- StraightTalk No.70 – Raison d‘être: The How and Why of Business Architecture Stakeholder Mapping
- StraightTalk No.71 – Taking Initiative: How to Leverage Business Architecture for Initiative Planning
Integrating With Other Disciplines and Teams
- Business Architecture Integration: Integrating Business Architecture Into The Enterprise
- StraightTalk No. 40 – Being Disruptive: The Connection Between Business Architecture and Innovation
- Straight Talk No. 93 – The Bridge: How Business Architecture and Operating Models Fit Together
- Straight Talk No. 94 – Inside-Out Outside-In: How Business Architecture and Customer Experience Design Fit Together
- How Business Architecture and Customer Experience Design Work Together podcast
- StraightTalk No. 16 – Left Brain Meet Right Brain—The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience
- 5 – Minutes with Mike Clark: The Connection Between Business Architecture and Customer Experience podcast
- Making the Customer Experience Real with Business Architecture article
- Untangling Customer Journeys, Value Chains, Value Streams, and Business Processes article
- Business Architecture and the Customer Experience: A Comprehensive Approach for Turning Customer Needs into Action Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Business Architecture For Superior CX Design video
- StraightTalk No. 96 – The People Perspective: How Business Architecture and Organization Design Fit Together
- Straight Talk No. 95 – The SAFe Bet: Your Top 10 FAQs Answered About Business Architecture and Scaled Agile
- 10-Minutes With Jo Gilmore: 10 Frequently Asked Questions About Business Architecture and SAFe: podcast
- StraightTalk No.14 – BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 1 — How Business Architecture Fits Within the Context of Enterprise Architecture
- 5-Minutes with Mike Rosen: Understanding Enterprise and Business Architecture podcast
- StraightTalk No.15 – BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 2 — How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation
- 5-Minutes with William Ulrich: How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation podcast
- StraightTalk No. 45 – The Stars Are Aligning: Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Framework Alignment
- Business Architecture: Putting “Business” Back into Enterprise Architecture article
- The Art and Practice of Business / IT Architecture Transformation blog
- 10-Minutes with Bryan Lail & Steve DuPont: Alignment of the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Framework with the BIZBOK® Guide podcast
- StraightTalk No. 41 – You Complete Me: How Business Architecture and Business Process Fit Together
- Business Architecture and BPM: Differentiation and Reconciliation Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Value Streams and Business Processes: The Business Architecture Perspective Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Aligning Operating Models with Strategy Using Business Architecture Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- StraightTalk No. 88 – Partners in Change: How Business Architecture and Change Management Work Together
- 10-Minutes with Ken Williams: How Business Architecture and Change Management Work Together to Help Organizations podcast
- StraightTalk No. 27 – Being on the SAFe Side: How Business Architecture and Agile Fit Together
- 5-Minutes with Alex Randell: The Relationship Between Business Architecture and Agile podcast
- Business Architecture - The Gateway to Transforming an Organization Into an Agile Enterprise white paper
- Leveraging Business Architecture to Improve Business Requirements Analysis Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Business Architecture and Agile Methodologies Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Aligning Business Architecture and the Scaled Agile Framework® Guild white paper (see Business Architecture Guild® Public Resources page)
- Cutter Business Technology Journal: Architecture + Agile journal
Other Resources and Activities
- Refer to the BIZBOK® Guide and business architecture Recorded Webinars as applicable
- Join Biz Arch Mastery's Inner Circle program for ongoing coaching and community interaction, tailored for you. Learn more on the Join page and watch the brief introduction video for an overview.
- Get some help on your journey with the Business Architecture Knowledgebase Assessment, Business Architecture Advisory Services and/or custom Business Architecture Training service offerings
8 Assess Practice Maturity and Results
- StraightTalk No. 4 – Let’s Get This Party Started: How to Start a Business Architecture Practice
- StraightTalk No. 20 – Charting The Course: Maturity-Driven Business Architecture Practice Planning
- StraightTalk No. 44 – The Business Architecture Summit: A Vision For Business Architecture Practice Maturity and How To Get There
- StraightTalk No. 49 – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (a.k.a. The Dos and Don'ts of Establishing a Business Architecture Practice)
- The Business Architecture Practice: A Practical Approach to Establish and Mature Your Internal Practice white paper
- StraightTalk No. 57 – Return On Business Architecture Investment (ROBAI): How to Calculate the ROI of Business Architecture
- StraightTalk No. 21 – By The Numbers (a.k.a. Measuring the Success of a Business Architecture Practice)
- Conquering The Business Architecture Summit — Lessons from the Mountain for Establishing a Business Architecture Practice white paper
- Maturing a Business Architecture Practice: The Promise and the Path article
- Business Architecture: What’s the ROI article
- Measuring Business Architecture Success article
- The Business Architecture Summit: Lessons from the Mountain article
- StraightTalk No. 49 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Dos and Don’ts For Establishing a Business Architecture Practice
- StraightTalk No. 32 – Leaving a Legacy: How to Deal With Legacy Business Architecture Challenges
- StraightTalk No. 65 – We Are The World: A Global Snapshot of Business Architecture Today and Trending
- StraightTalk No. 19 – Crystal Ball as of 2018: Business Architecture Now + A Glimpse Into the Future
- The Global State of Business Architecture: Where We Are and Where We’re Going article
- Leveraging Business Architecture: 3 Predictions Pointing to New Relevance and Leadership article
- Business Architecture Trends, Predictions and Recommendations webinar
Other Resources and Activities
- Leverage the Business Architecture Value Assessment Tool to help you evaluate the value of your organization's business architecture practice from two perspectives: the Internal Alignment of the team and the External Adoption by others in the organization.
- Refer to the BIZBOK® Guide and business architecture Recorded Webinars as applicable
- Leverage the Business Architecture Maturity Model® from the Business Architecture Guild® (see Business Architecture Guild® Store)
- Join Biz Arch Mastery's Inner Circle program for ongoing coaching and community interaction, tailored for you. Learn more on the Join page and watch the brief introduction video for an overview.
- Get an objective business architecture practice maturity assessment with the Business Architecture Practice Assessment and Business Architecture Knowledgebase Assessment service offerings or get some additional help on your journey with the Business Architecture Advisory Services and/or custom Business Architecture Training service offerings
9 Plan and Deliver Improvements
- StraightTalk No. 4 – Let’s Get This Party Started: How to Start a Business Architecture Practice
- StraightTalk No. 20 – Charting The Course: Maturity-Driven Business Architecture Practice Planning
- The Business Architecture Practice: A Practical Approach to Establish and Mature Your Internal Practice white paper
- Maturing a Business Architecture Practice: The Promise and the Path article
Other Resources and Activities
- Join Biz Arch Mastery's Inner Circle program for ongoing coaching and community interaction, tailored for you. Learn more on the Join page and watch the brief introduction video for an overview.
- Get some help with your Business Architecture Practice Roadmap or additional help on the journey with the Business Architecture Advisory Services and/or custom Business Architecture Training service offerings