Resource Library

A compilation of complementary tools, techniques and resources valuable for the practice of business architecture – sourced from you, the global business architecture community!

This article reflects on what we have achieved and what we have learned during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how organizations can build upon this momentum for the deeper transformation needed to truly become a digital enterprise.

This ​​​​​​​article lays out the top five foundational things you need to know about business architecture.

Business architecture is many different things, capable of delivering many different value propositions to an organization. It is a shared enterprise business language and mental model; a macro business lens for analyzing investments, risks, opportunities, and more; a key component of end-to-end strategy execution; and an important mechanism to bridge and break down silos. Certainly, silos can be necessary for organizations to operate; however, silos can be detrimental to an organization’s success. This article explores the challenges with organizational silos and how business architecture is uniquely qualified to address them.

An overview of how business architecture applies to non-profit and smaller organizations, including a supporting case study.

This SlideShare explores key concepts and principles of resilient and sustainable organizations and business ecosystems, using the natural world as our guide. It also explores how business and enterprise architecture can be leveraged to build resilient and sustainable organizations, focusing on their role in assessment, design and transformation to future state.

This article explores opportunities for strategy execution, the role of business architecture and the resulting benefits, collaboration with other teams, and some steps we can take to move into action.

This SlideShare overview by Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark explores the opportunities and implications for artificial intelligence, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action. 

In this white paper, co-authors Gary Wright and Whynde Kuehn describe how business architecture can be used as a guide for business continuity planning. Original Publish Date: 30 April 2020.

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 three of a three-part series of articles that describe how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. This article focuses on leveraging tools.

Amidst the backdrop of a digital, globally connected world and the evolution of the very purpose of the firm, organizations are beginning to rethink and shift their mindsets and structures from shareholder focus to stakeholder focus, from profit-driven to value-driven, and from competing as an organization to thriving as a key part of ecosystems. With this future trajectory in mind, this article provides an overview of the essential role business architecture plays in defining, designing, implementing, and managing business ecosystems, along with examples of where this concept is emerging in practice.

This article by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark articulates the role of business design in not only helping to identify the data that will power AI but also ensuring that all appropriate guardrails have been considered and are put in place.