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Crystal Clear – How To Translate Strategy With Business Architecture

03 August 2020

This installment of StraightTalk explores how business architecture can be leveraged to translate strategy into initiatives, including the how-to and the benefits.

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Business Models Through the Business Architecture Looking Glass – Creating and Using Business Models from a Business Architecture Perspective

18 July 2020

This installment of StraightTalk is a business architecture take on business models, which explores what it means to leverage business models using a business architecture mindset as well as the role and value of business architects in creating and using business models.

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The Secret: What Business Architecture Is Really About and Why It Can Be So Hard

16 March 2020

What is business architecture really about? And why can it be so hard for others to understand its value and see what business architects see? This installment of StraightTalk aims to provide some context for what happens to many of us on a daily basis and why. The ideas shared here are just a start and should be considered as the beginning of a conversation for us to come together around messaging and a movement that can help fuel the adoption of business architecture.

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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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A Pathway To The Future For All: How Business Architecture Can Help Us Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

03 February 2020

This installment of StraightTalk explores how business architecture can be used as a framework to help us achieve goals for sustainability and doing good for people and the planet.

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Mind The Gap: How Business Architecture Breaks Down and Bridges Silos

20 January 2020

Silos are in many ways just inherently human, but unchecked, they can become detrimental to an organization’s success. Business architecture is uniquely qualified to break down and bridge silos, as this installment explores.

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Life Architecture: Bringing An Intentional Approach to Personal Improvement

06 January 2020

This installment of StraightTalk explores the concept of life architecture – which is all about bringing structure and intention to our own lives and personal improvement – inspired by an amazing human story.

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20-Minutes With Gary Wright: The Concept of Life Architecture

Whynde Kuehn, the founder of S2E Transformation, interviews entrepreneur, innovator, and business architect Gary Wright on the concept of Life Architecture — a framework that allows one to evaluate their personal strengths and weaknesses when life changes suddenly.

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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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