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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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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.
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It’s time to look back on another year of StraightTalk! This is the time when we reflect and recognize your most favorite content from 2019.
This animated video from thought leaders Dr. Raj Ramesh and Whynde Kuehn illustrates an approach for decision-making – based on principles of structured thinking and underpinned by business architecture – using the coronavirus pandemic as an example.
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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.
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16 March, 2020
What is business architecture really about? And why can it be so hard for others to understand its value and see what business architects see? This installment of StraightTalk aims to provide some context for what happens to many of us on a daily basis and why. The ideas shared here are just a start and should be considered as the beginning of a conversation for us to come together around messaging and a movement that can help fuel the adoption of business architecture.
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02 March, 2020
Leveraging business architecture for prioritizing, scoping, shaping, sequencing, informing and rationalizing initiatives is one of the most common – and powerful – uses of business architecture. Smart initiative planning is critical to effective strategy execution, and leveraging business architecture for it inherently shifts mindsets in new ways that consider the bigger picture for the enterprise both now and in the future. In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore just a few different ways in which business architecture can be leveraged for initiative planning.
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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.
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17 February, 2020
In this installment of StraightTalk, we’re going to explore a sometimes overlooked but all-important domain for the business architecture baseline: stakeholders. Stakeholder mapping techniques came on the scene and matured a bit later than some of the others, so it’s a good time to revisit them and their valuable role in the business architecture.
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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.
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03 February, 2020
This installment of StraightTalk explores how business architecture can be used as a framework to help us achieve goals for sustainability and doing good for people and the planet.
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20 January, 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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06 January, 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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