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Significant opportunities and competitive pressures are driving banks to develop their digital capacity and transform into digital enterprises. This can lead to an almost overwhelming set of key decisions to be made and actions to be taken, all with speed. What strategic options should we pursue: create a digital department, spin-off a digital bank, conduct a merger or acquisition? How should we partner with FinTechs? What is the impact of new regulation and ESG expectations? What does it really mean to be a digital enterprise and how can we best prepare our workforce and technology environment for the future? What steps should we take to achieve our desired level of digital maturity – and how do we balance them with other efforts in the enterprise?

Whether you are a leader responsible for the business architecture function, a seasoned business architect who has been a cornerstone of the team or someone who has just been informed that you will be establishing business architecture within your organization, we salute you. Your tireless dedication and action to establish and mature business architecture within your organization is game changing for your organization and the discipline itself globally.

First, thank you for being here and for being a partner and advocate who is actively engaged and cares about business architecture. You might be in any number of roles from a business or technology leader, to a strategist or strategic planner, to a risk or compliance manager, to a sustainability professional looking to gain some insights on business architecture so that you can use it to inform decisions or increase the effectiveness of your organization. Or, perhaps you are a leader or practitioner in a related discipline such as human-centered design, organization design, organizational change management, business process management, or business analysis who is seeking to integrate into your organization’s business architecture and work closely with the business architecture practitioners.

Whether you are transitioning into the business architect role, ready to take your business architecture career to the next level, or are a fully seasoned business architecture expert, we are delighted you’re here. The business architecture journey is an exciting and rewarding one — practiced by an impressive community of professionals who seek to make a difference in their organizations and the world.

In Step 3, start leveraging business architecture and working with business architecture practitioners to achieve real business value.

In Step 1, gain an overall understanding of the why, what and how of business architecture as well as how it fits within a broader context.

In Step 2, delve further to explore the potential value and usage scenarios for business architecture as well as see how other organizations are leveraging it. The resources are grouped by usage scenarios and related disciplines to help you quickly locate content that applies to you.