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Get ready for some StraightTalk on a topic we all love: business models. In this installment, we talk about what they are and how they are BFF (Best Friends Forever) with business architecture.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take another look at business architecture in action—this time to help organizations manage risk and compliance.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we take a look at business architecture in action for common business scenarios, this time with a focus on product management.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about how we can leverage tools for accelerating the development of a business architecture knowledgebase.

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.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about one of those million dollar questions: how to measure business architecture success.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we talk about how to assess the maturity of your practice and plan for its advancement.

In the generous spirit of the holidays, this installment of StraightTalk looks at using business architecture within the context of non-profit organizations.

In this installment of StraightTalk, we’re going to look at using business architecture for startups and small businesses. Let’s go.

Get ready for a great StraightTalk installment. In this installment, we explore a topic that everyone wants to know about in this age of organizational transformation — customer experience.

This post is the second one in our two-part series exploring how business architecture and IT architecture really are BFF (Best Friends Forever).

We’ve been very business-focused in our StraightTalk so far—and intentionally so. But a business architect always has a foot in two different worlds: one as part of the business and the other as part of the enterprise architecture team. So, for the next two posts, we are going to focus on how business architecture relates to IT architecture, and we’ll see how these two really are BFF (Best Friends Forever). Business architecture provides the business context and direction, and IT architecture makes it real through automated solutions.