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This visionary article discusses the areas in which business architecture will continue to play a key role and illustrates how three specific scenarios will lead the way to expanded relevance and leadership. It lays out what this might mean for practitioners, along with the steps needed to realize these benefits.

This article offers advice to business and enterprise architects on taking stock of the global state of business architecture. Whether you are think­ing over your organization’s business architecture practice or your own business architecture career, having an awareness of the bigger picture is vital for comparison and inspiration.

Senior leaders are feeling the push from shareholders to continue driving their organizations forward, but is AI the answer? Just because AI is front-page news, is it right for your organization? Are the implications truly understood? These questions and more are crucial for leaders as the AI evolution continues to shape the next wave of work. Clearly, AI will profoundly transform our lives in the years ahead. Finding the balance between opportunity and implications is key to our success as well as to our future.

This executive report, written by industry thought leaders Whynde Kuehn and Mike Clark, explores these opportunities and implications, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action.

There is a growing body of evidence that points to what makes a business architecture team successful. This article shares a few characteristics that encapsulate how successful business architecture practitioners think and act.

This article offers business architect practitioners a valuable approach for calculating ROBAI (Return on Business Architecture Investment) designed to equip business architecture teams with the ability to demonstrate their value and impact across the organization.

One of the most frequent questions business architecture leaders and practitioners ask is about how to measure the success of a business architecture practice. How do we quantify it? How do we prove its value? This article describes the benefits and challenges of measuring business architecture success and provides some practical approaches that can be used to accomplish this very important activity.

The need for business architecture in organizations has never been greater than it is today, as organizations must continually sense and respond to opportunity and change. Though the business architecture discipline continues to gain traction at an ever-increasing pace, how the discipline is practiced is critical for its adoption and effectiveness. This article provides an overview of the importance of using visual techniques as part of a business architecture practice and highlights three aspects: visual design, graphic recording and facilitation, as well as storytelling.

This article acknowledges that enterprise architecture has come a long way in recent years by providing an enterprise perspective and needed structured thinking to business-critical activities, but still has a ways to go in delivering on its intended value proposition. It lays out eight key business priorities that enterprise architecture teams should consider in 2019 and describes how the discipline can add value to each priority.

Your organization has been researching what digital transformation means, speaking with vendors about digital strategies and solutions, maybe even trying to find applications for artificial intelligence or other emerging technologies, and implementing agile approaches. But are you really ready for digital transformation? This article explores what digital readiness means and how business architecture is a keystone and critical starting point for digital readiness in your organization.

Digital transformation is a fundamental business change that also requires a rewiring of the way an organization operates. An often-overlooked discipline — business architecture — can facilitate the critical bridge between strategy and execution, as well as offer an enabling instrument for digital transformation within an organization. This article describes how the discipline can be a gateway to successful, business-driven digital transformation.

This white paper by leading industry experts provides a brief introduction to business architecture, describes and dispels twelve commonly held misconceptions or myths, and gives a glimpse of the future Revised: January 2019

This white paper by business architecture industry leaders Whynde Kuehn and William Ulrich illustrates how business architecture can be a gateway for an organization to transform itself into an agile enterprise.