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Evolving the Organizational DNA, Part 1: How Business Architecture Can Enable Organizational Sustainability

19 August 2019

This installment of StraightTalk is the first in a series that focuses on how business architecture can be used to catalyze, embed and enforce key sustainability, legal and ethical considerations into an organization’s DNA. Using business architecture in this way truly unlocks its value and power. First up in our series: how business architecture can enable organizational sustainability, so here goes.

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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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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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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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15-Minutes with Tamara Park: How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Storytelling For Greater Success

Whynde Kuehn interviews Tamara Park, storyteller extraordinaire, on the power of story and how storytelling can be an inspiring and valuable tool for business architects to employ during organizational transformation. Tamara, an award-winning television producer and documentary series director, is the co-founder of StoryNow, which she describes as the first digital creative agency and production house you can take with you wherever you go.

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Seeing Is Believing, Part 2 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Graphic Recording and Facilitation for Greater Success

04 March 2019

Welcome to Part 2 of 3 within our visual and storytelling StraightTalk series. This is the second installment in the series where we explore how we can leverage two highly engaging, visual techniques – graphic recording and graphic facilitation – as part of our business architecture practice. What we can achieve with business architecture is only as good as our ability to communicate, influence, and connect with other people. The two powerful illustrative techniques allow us to do so on a human level that raises our collective understanding.

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5-Minutes with Sarah Greer: How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Graphic Recording and Facilitation For Greater Success – Part 1

Whynde Kuehn interviews illustrator Sarah Greer on how business architecture practices can leverage graphic recording and graphic facilitation for greater success.

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15-Minutes with Michael Pemberton: How Business Architecture Teams Can Leverage Graphic Recording and Facilitation for Greater Success – Part 2

Whynde Kuehn, in this podcast conversation with business and strategy architect, Michael Pemberton, explores real-life graphic technique examples that can be used as creative methods to engage participants, at every level of an organization, to improve communication, understanding, and retention of information.

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Seeing Is Believing, Part 1 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Presentation Design for Greater Success

18 February 2019

Welcome to Part 1 of 3 within our visual and storytelling StraightTalk series. When we think about our business architecture practices, or even our competencies as business architects, we often focus on developing and using business architecture. While that is indeed the heart of what we do, to be successful, there are many other things we need to be good at—like presenting information both visually and verbally. This is our first installment in the series and we will explore presentation design.

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