STRAIGHT TALK — THE BLOG
Making the Grade: Assessing Business Architecture
By Whynde Kuehn | 21 May 2018
In this installment, StraightTalk Post No. 28, we are going to look at a topic of increasing interest and practice: business architecture assessments. What are we talking about here? Performing business architecture assessments is the idea capturing various metrics about an organization’s business architecture, which can then be assessed to identify improvement opportunities and make […]
Speedy Business Architecture, Part 2 — Accelerating Business Architecture Development With Tools
By Whynde Kuehn | 5 March 2018
Though the Winter Olympics may be over (sad face), we are still thinking about speed and business architecture. In our last installment, we looked at accelerating the development of a business architecture knowledgebase using reference models. StraightTalk Post No. 23 here will talk about how we can leverage tools for further acceleration. How do tools […]
Speedy Business Architecture, Part 1 — Accelerating Business Architecture Development With Reference Models
By Whynde Kuehn | 19 February 2018
With all of this Olympic spirit in the air, let’s talk about speed. We know that the business architecture knowledgebase is fundamental to the enterprise insights, analysis and ways of designing that are unique only to architecture. But how do we build our knowledgebase fast—especially if we’re just starting our business architecture practice? StraightTalk Posts […]
BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 2
(a.k.a. How Business Architecture Drives IT Architecture Alignment and Transformation)
By Whynde Kuehn | 6 November 2017
This post is the second one in our two-part series exploring how business architecture and IT architecture really are BFF (Best Friends Forever). (P.S. Check out Part 1, if you missed it.) And, we have a guest star. William Ulrich is President of TSG, Inc., Partner at Business Architecture Associates, and a Co-Founder of the […]
BFF: Business Architecture + IT Architecture, Part 1
(a.k.a. How Business Architecture Fits Within the Context of Enterprise Architecture)
By Whynde Kuehn | 16 October 2017
We’ve been very business-focused in our StraightTalk so far—and intentionally so. But a business architect always has a foot in two different worlds: one as part of the business and the other as part of the enterprise architecture team. P.S. Remember our formula for one happy family from StraightTalk Post No. 1: Enterprise Architecture = […]