4 Advance Knowledge & Application
In Step 4, continue advancing your business architecture career by expanding your knowledge, abilities and experiences, which will allow you to become a trusted advisor and address increasingly strategic, large and complex business challenges and opportunities. Consider that success in the business architect role is not just in what you do, but in how you perform the role. Begin leveraging your role as a business architect to lead and influence your organization and sphere of influence on topics that matter such as a vision for effective design, expansion into business ecosystems, sustainability or other relevant opportunities.
RESOURCES TO EXPLORE AND ACTIONS TO TAKE
(1) Advance your knowledge and skills in critical business architecture focus areas
- Complete the Leveraging Business Architecture for Strategy Execution workshop to learn and apply the core techniques for informing and translating strategy with business architecture (coming in 2025!)
- Enroll in The Business Architecture Partnership Ecosystem program to deepen your knowledge of complementary disciplines and functions as well as how to cross-map them to business architecture and collaborate to deliver value. This program also gives you practical experience applying business architecture through a variety of case studies.
(2) Advance your knowledge and skills in complementary disciplines and techniques to help you effectively perform in the role
- Reflect on the Key Competencies for Business Architects and identify any non-architecture competencies you would like to develop. Identify training and development opportunities.
- Complete the Effective Communication for Business Architecture Success program to help you communicate with confidence and success
- Read the Complementary Topics for Business Architects to Explore article
- Watch the How to Master the Art of Storytelling video
- Check out the collection on Business Architecture Communication
- Read StraightTalk No. 66 – Servant First: How Servant Leadership Makes Business Architects More Impactful
- Listen to the 10–Minutes With Jeff Dols: The Concept of Servant Leadership and Business Architecture podcast
- Read StraightTalk No. 64 – The Business Architect Imperative: Showing Up With Wow
(3) Continue learning and refining your approach to applying business architecture for value
- Read Chapter 3 of Strategy to Reality, which overviews many different usage scenarios for business architecture, including strategy execution, transformation, and much more
- Read Chapter 4 of The Execution Challenge, which provides specific techniques for you to apply from strategy to execution
- Leverage complementary tools and techniques in the business architecture toolbox (share your suggestions!)
- Visit our Resource Library to explore the list of business architecture usage scenarios. Simply filter by the Usage category for loads of resources to help you apply business architecture across many different business scenarios.
(4) Share your successes!
- Share your business architecture success stories with the community, published through Biz Arch Mastery
- Submit to speak at a conference or event
(5) Once the program is available from the Business Architecture Guild®, achieve the second level of business architecture certification to demonstrate your competence and experience as practitioner (not currently available as of 2024)
PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT YOUR JOURNEY
- Leveraging Business Architecture for Strategy Execution – A hands-on workshop where you learn and apply key business architecture techniques from strategy to execution, leveraging a comprehensive case study (coming in 2025!)
- The Business Architecture Partnership Ecosystem – A 5-month hands-on, advanced program to learn how to integrate business architecture with key functions and disciplines for a holistic approach to strategy execution, organizational design, and decision-making (available in a live virtual or self-paced format)
- Effective Communication for Business Architecture Success – A 6-weeks hands-on specialty program with Tamara Park, especially tailored for business architects
- Inner Circle Alumni Mastermind – If you have completed an Inner Circle cohort, make sure to sign up for the Inner Circle Alumni Mastermind for continual learning and peer collaboration.
- Contact us for more information on private business architecture coaching services
5 Stay Aligned With Industry
In Step 5, keep your knowledge and experience current by staying up to date with the global advancements and trends in the business architecture discipline.
RESOURCES TO EXPLORE AND ACTIONS TO TAKE
- Stay up to date on the BIZBOK® Guide (review the release notes for newly published versions)
- Watch Business Architecture Guild® business architecture Recorded Webinars
- Join the Inner Circle Alumni Mastermind for continual co-creation, evolution, and exchange with your peers
- Follow S2E Transformation and Whynde Kuehn on LinkedIn for information on news and events
- Engage with your local community where one exists (for example, join TCBAF if you are in Minnesota or contact us for information about the European Business Architecture Community Roundtables) – or start one!
PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT YOUR JOURNEY
- Inner Circle Alumni Mastermind – If you have completed an Inner Circle cohort, make sure to sign up for the Inner Circle Alumni Mastermind for continual learning and peer collaboration.
6 Consider Career Path Options
RESOURCES TO EXPLORE AND ACTIONS TO TAKE
- Reflect on the Business Architecture Career Progression
- Read Chapter 8 of The Execution Challenge, and take particular note of the career path options diagram in Figure 8.3
- Read StraightTalk No. 67 – Life Architecture: Bringing An Intentional Approach to Personal Improvement
- Listen to the 20–Minutes With Gary Wright: The Concept of Life Architecture podcast
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