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This installment of StraightTalk explores how the disciplines of organization design and business architecture can work together. The discipline of organization design is critical for organizations, especially now, and there must be tight partnership and integration with business architecture.

This installment of StraightTalk offers some fresh, data-based insights on the human side of business architecture from the Business Architect Strengths Study. This is a good starting point to help us explore how to leverage our unique strengths and work with others, not only to succeed in the business architect role but also to drive change with business architecture.

This installment of StraightTalk addresses the top-10 Frequently Asked Questions about business architecture and SAFe with Guest Star Jo Gilmore.

This installment of StraightTalk focuses on the topic of customer experience design and explores what it is, why it is important, and how it fits hand-in-hand with business architecture.

This installment of StraightTalk explores what an operating model is and how it works with an organization’s business architecture.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we highlight 10 powerful takeaways from a conversation with Julie Choo, author of THE STRATEGY JOURNEY book, creator of THE STRATEGY JOURNEY Framework, and founder of the Stratability Academy, on how to practice the art of business architecture and how the discipline fits within the broader context of the strategy journey.

As your business architecture team grows and as demand for your business architecture services increases, at some point you may want to seriously consider creating a business architecture playbook. While many teams are not even aware of what a business architecture playbook is, they often experience the challenges that can occur when one is lacking as the discipline scales within their organization.

This installment will break down the what, the why, and the how of building a business architecture playbook, in the usual StraightTalk style.

This installment of StraightTalk provides you with loads of practical tips, secrets, and hacks for business architecture socialization based on the collective wisdom of business architecture practitioners around the world.

What’s a composable business? Composable means modularity. This installment of StraightTalk describes why modularity is beneficial to organizations and how business architecture serves as THE common, reusable business components for an organization.

This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of organizational change management and how it works together with business architecture, guest starring Ken Williams.

This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of BizOps, how it relates to other approaches, and how business architecture can help. It is based upon the podcast with business architecture and enterprise architecture guru Mike Rosen.

Business architecture is an excellent framework for informing decisions of all kinds. In this installment of StraightTalk, we explore just a few ideas for how business architecture can be leveraged to inform technology-related decisions, including technology assessment, selection, design, planning and management.