This is a list of helpful resources related to business architecture as well as other complementary disciplines, techniques, and skills. For a deeper dive, please visit our companion site Biz Arch Mastery.
Additional Resources
Here is a list of great resources for you to reference anytime, related to business architecture as well as other relevant disciplines, techniques, and skills.
Business Architecture-Related Books
- Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter
- Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill and David Robertson
- The Great Transition, James Martin
- Business Architecture Quick Guide from the Business Architecture Guild, available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Business Architecture-Related Articles
- “Business Architecture: Putting the ‘Business’ Into Enterprise Architecture,” William Ulrich and Dr. Richard Soley
- “The Business Capability Map: The ‘Rosetta Stone’ of Business/IT Alignment,” William Ulrich and Michael Rosen
- “Business Models and the Art of Modelling,” Ronald P. Willis
Other Books
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Michael E. Porter (Strategy)
- Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Michael E. Porter (Strategy)
- Strategy Safari: Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management, Mintzberg, Ahlstrand and Lampel (Strategy)
- Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Strategy)
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur (Business Model)
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur and others (Business Model / Value Proposition)
- The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Objectives / Strategy Mapping)
- Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Objective / Strategy Mapping)
- The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Objectives / Strategy Mapping)
- This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases, Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider (Experience Design)
- Service Design For Business, Reason, Lovlie, Brand Flu (Experience Design)
- Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-on Guide for Leaders at All Levels, Jay Galbraith, Diane Downey and Amy Kates (Organizational Design)
- slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, Nancy Duarte (Presentations)
- Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam (Visual Facilitation)
- Gamestorming (A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers), Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo (Facilitation)
- The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches, New and Revised Edition, Roger Schwarz (Facilitation)
Blogs
- StraightTalk: Whynde Kuehn’s professional business blog on a mission to explain business architecture, end-to-end — delivered twice monthly
- Bridging the Gap: Mike Clark’s blog on value-driven design in business teams
- The Business Architect blog (in particular, see posts from Jeff Scott)
- The Art and Practice of Business / IT Architecture Transformation blog by William Ulrich
- Farnam Street Blog on mental models, decision making, learning, reading, and the art of living