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StraightTalk

StraightTalk is a professional business blog on a mission to explain business architecture, end-to-end, with the goal of helping to advance the discipline globally through shared knowledge. It's like your personal guide through the world of business architecture — delivered twice monthly.

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Partners In Change: How Change Management and Business Architecture Work Together

16 November 2020
This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of organizational change management and how it works together with business architecture, guest starring Ken Williams.
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Brave New World: How Business Architecture Benefits BizOps

02 November 2020
This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of BizOps, how it relates to other approaches, and how business architecture can help. It is based upon the podcast with business architecture and enterprise architecture guru Mike Rosen.
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Decisions, Decisions — The Technology Edition: How Business Architecture Facilitates Better Technology-Related Decisions

17 October 2020
Business architecture is an excellent framework for informing decisions of all kinds. In this installment of StraightTalk, we explore just a few ideas for how business architecture can be leveraged to inform technology-related decisions, including technology assessment, selection, design, planning and management.
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Demystifying An Organization: The Business Architecture Take on Organization Mapping

05 October 2020
This installment of StraightTalk breaks down the concept of organization mapping through the business architecture lens. It provides a guided tour, including the intent of organization mapping and its technique.
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The Value Mindset: Demystifying the Business Architecture Value Stream

21 September 2020
This installment of StraightTalk demystifies what a business architecture value stream is and is not, and breaks it all down StraightTalk-style.
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Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance: Crucial Business Architecture Topics for Bridge Building

07 September 2020
There are topics that can make us scratch our business architecture heads. This installment of StraightTalk explores a few of them with the intent of creating clarity and understanding so that we can come together and move forward.
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The Silver Lining – How Business Architecture Informs Cloud Decision-Making

17 August 2020
This installment of StraightTalk explores how business architecture can be leveraged to provide the critical business context to inform decision-making around cloud strategy and migration.
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Crystal Clear – How To Translate Strategy With Business Architecture

03 August 2020
This installment of StraightTalk explores how business architecture can be leveraged to translate strategy into initiatives, including the how-to and the benefits.
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Business Models Through the Business Architecture Looking Glass – Creating and Using Business Models from a Business Architecture Perspective

18 July 2020
This installment of StraightTalk is a business architecture take on business models, which explores what it means to leverage business models using a business architecture mindset as well as the role and value of business architects in creating and using business models.
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The FABAQ Redux, Part 3 – FAQs on the Business Architecture Practice and Role

06 July 2020
Frequently Asked Business Architecture Questions (FABAQ) are all about providing answers to the burning questions about business architecture. This installment focuses on questions related the business architecture practice and role.
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The FABAQ Redux, Part 2 – FAQs on Business Architecture Knowledgebase Plus Alignment

15 June 2020
Frequently Asked Business Architecture Questions (FABAQ) are all about providing answers to the burning questions about business architecture. This installment focuses on questions related the business architecture knowledgebase and alignment with other disciplines.
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The FABAQ Redux, Part 1 – FAQs on Business Architecture And Strategy Plus Usage Scenarios

01 June 2020
Frequently Asked Business Architecture Questions (FABAQ) are all about providing answers to the burning questions about business architecture. We've amassed a lot of new inquires from many quarters as the discipline continues to evolve and the practice expands worldwide. Dive in!
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