Resource Library
The Resource Library contains numerous articles, white papers, posts, podcasts, videos, surveys, and primary research — plus original diagrams and infographics about Business Architecture and Transformation. Use the Filter to narrow your search or click on the graphical shortcuts below to popular content categories. Also, check out our StraightTalk podcasts and other syndicated content available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, or wherever you find your podcasts.
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January 20, 2020
Silos are in many ways just inherently human, but unchecked, they can become detrimental to an organization’s success. Business architecture is uniquely qualified to break down and bridge silos, as this installment explores.
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January 6, 2020
This installment of StraightTalk explores the concept of life architecture – which is all about bringing structure and intention to our own lives and personal improvement – inspired by an amazing human story.
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Whynde Kuehn, the founder of S2E Transformation, interviews entrepreneur, innovator, and business architect Gary Wright on the concept of Life Architecture — a framework that allows one to evaluate their personal strengths and weaknesses when life changes suddenly.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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December 16, 2019
This installment of StraightTalk describes what servant leadership is, why it is so important, and how servant-leader characteristics can help business architects to become more successful.
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Whynde Kuehn has a conversation with experienced business architect Jeff Dols on adopting a servant-leader mindset and how the characteristics of a servant-leader can benefit business architects to be more effective and far-reaching in their impact on organizations.
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December 2, 2019
As we’re nearing the end of another trip around the sun, it’s a good time to reflect on our global business architecture community, the discipline and to look forward and dream. This installment of StraightTalk provides some food for thought as you do your own reflections, both individually as well as perhaps with your internal business architecture team and even your local community.
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November 18, 2019
As a newer role on the scene, working in a business world ubiquitous with design, digital, agile and other emerging concepts, the way we show up as business architects matters a lot. Because everything we do and say demonstrates to others what business architecture really is, and we need to be relevant and distinguish ourselves. The success of a business architect then is not just in what we know or what we do — but in our Ways of Working (WOWs), which this installment of StraightTalk explores.
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This Cutter Consortium report describes how business architecture professionals can accelerate the development of their organization’s business architecture. Learn how to build the knowledgebase in an efficient way, leverage reference models that help jumpstart the business architecture, and utilize tools that enable scale and robust usage of the knowledgebase across the organization. By leveraging solid business architecture know-how, practitioners will be fully equipped to deliver business value across the entire strategy execution lifecycle.
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November 4, 2019
In order to compete and operate effectively, an organization must have clarity on who their customers are and what products they offer – and this must be consistently understood by every person so they know who they are serving and how they fit within the bigger picture. An organization’s business architecture is front and center to providing this clarity, which is what we explore throughout this installment of StraightTalk.
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