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The Business Architecture Practice: A Practical Approach to Establish and Mature Your Internal Practice

21 February 2017

Designed for business architecture practice leaders and business architecture practitioners, this essential white paper provides a pragmatic perspective on how to establish and mature a business architecture practice. Original Publish Date: 21 February 2017

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Leveraging Business Architecture: 3 Predictions Pointing to New Relevance and Leadership

05 February 2020

This visionary article discusses the areas in which business architecture will continue to play a key role and illustrates how three specific scenarios will lead the way to expanded relevance and leadership. It lays out what this might mean for practitioners, along with the steps needed to realize these benefits.

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The Global State of Business Architecture: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

30 December 2019

This article offers advice to business and enterprise architects on taking stock of the global state of business architecture. Whether you are thinking over your organization’s business architecture practice or your own business architecture career, having an awareness of the bigger picture is vital for comparison and inspiration.

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We Are The World: A Global Snapshot of Business Architecture Today and Trending

02 December 2019

As we’re nearing the end of another trip around the sun, it’s a good time to reflect on our global business architecture community, the discipline and to look forward and dream. This installment of StraightTalk provides some food for thought as you do your own reflections, both individually as well as perhaps with your internal business architecture team and even your local community.

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Business Architecture: What’s the ROI?

15 October 2019

This article offers business architect practitioners a valuable approach for calculating ROBAI (Return on Business Architecture Investment) designed to equip business architecture teams with the ability to demonstrate their value and impact across the organization.

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Return On Business Architecture Investment (ROBAI): How to Calculate the ROI of Business Architecture

05 August 2019

In this installment of StraightTalk, we will focus on one of those burning questions: how do we calculate the return on investment (ROI) of a business architecture practice within an organization? We will explore a method for determining the ROI of a business architecture practice that you can put into use ASAP. The intention here is to provide a place to start and give you some ideas, but hopefully, inspire many more of your own.

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Measuring Business Architecture Success

19 July 2019

One of the most frequent questions business architecture leaders and practitioners ask is about how to measure the success of a business architecture practice. How do we quantify it? How do we prove its value? This article describes the benefits and challenges of measuring business architecture success and provides some practical approaches that can be used to accomplish this very important activity.

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The Business Architecture Summit: A Vision For Business Architecture Practice Maturity and How To Get There

21 June 2019

Having a clear vision of what we are working towards is essential to guide and inspire any journey, so in this installment of StraightTalk, we explore a concept for what it means to be a mature business architecture practice, and how to get there. In other words, if we climb this business architecture mountain, what’s at the top and what are we to expect along the way?

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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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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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