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The Unexpected, Part 3: Recovery — Leveraging Business Architecture To Recover From The Unexpected

4 May 2020

This is the third installment of a multi-part StraightTalk series on how business architecture can help organizations prepare for, respond to, recover from and build resilience for the unexpected. The unexpected may include an incident caused by an organization (e.g., an accident or data breach) or one that has happened to it (e.g., a natural […]

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The Best of Straight Talk 2019

25 February 2020

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. We launched StraightTalk on April 3, 2017 with a mission to explain business architecture from end-to-end, with the goal of helping to advance the discipline globally through shared knowledge. Going […]

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Life Architecture: Bringing An Intentional Approach to Personal Improvement

6 January 2020

Welcome to the first StraightTalk installment of the new year, and in fact, the new decade. In keeping with our focus on the human side of business architecture, this installment explores the concept of life architecture, inspired by an amazing human story. As you know, the mission of StraightTalk is to break down business architecture bit-by-bit to […]

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Servant First: How Servant Leadership Makes Business Architects More Impactful

16 December 2019

Well, this is the last StraightTalk of the year (sniff) and with the holiday season upon us, it’s a good time to reflect and expand our perspective. We all know that being a successful business architect or having a successful business architecture practice is not only about what we do, but also about how we […]

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The Business Architect Imperative: Showing Up With Wow

18 November 2019

Business architecture and the business architect role continue to expand and mature across the globe. There has also been a shift in the way we practice the discipline. Collectively, we are increasingly business-focused, value-oriented and strategically-minded. That means putting the business in business architecture first and remembering that things — like building the architecture knowledgebase […]

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