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Business Politecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Adoption Challenges

01 October 2018
In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore another important topic to making a business architecture practice successful: business politecture. Yep, that is business architecture + politics = business politecture.
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Good to Great: How to Become a Great Business Architect

17 September 2018
This installment of StraightTalk is a follow-on from our previous post on what makes a great business architect. Let’s get actionable on what we talked about last time.
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In Search of Greatness: How to Find or Be a Great Business Architect

03 September 2018
What makes a “great” business architect is a topic of much curiosity and debate. So this installment of StraightTalk is about you, business architect, and what makes you tick.
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Business Marketecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Socialization Challenges

20 August 2018
In this installment, we will straight talk on one of everyone’s favorite topics: how to socialize and build buy-in for business architecture within an organization. Yep, we’re talking about business architecture + marketing = business marketecture. And sometimes we need a lot of it.
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Accelerating Business Architecture: Using Reference Models

13 June 2018
Organizations that desire to leverage business architecture for transformation, better strategy execution, or various types of decision making need to build their business architecture knowledgebase first before they can fully benefit from the discipline. This is part two of a three-part series of articles that describe how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. This article focuses on using reference models.
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Accelerating Business Architecture: Building the Knowledgebase

08 May 2018
Organizations that desire to leverage business architecture for transformation, better strategy execution, or various types of decision making need to build their business architecture knowledgebase first before they can fully benefit from the discipline. This is part one of a three-part series of articles that describe how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. This article focuses on building the knowledgebase.
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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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By The Numbers: How To Measure Business Architecture Success

05 February 2018
In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about one of those million dollar questions: how to measure business architecture success.
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A Map of the World, Part 2: Back to School With Mapping the Extended Business Architecture

02 October 2017
Back to business architecture school one more time. In our last installment, we talked about how to map out (a.k.a write down) the “core” business architecture that included capabilities, value streams, organization and information. Here in this installment, we’re going to talk about mapping the “extended” business architecture domains.
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