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Business Politecture: How to Deal With Business Architecture Adoption Challenges

1 October 2018

In this installment of StraightTalk, we will explore another important topic to making a business architecture practice successful: business politecture. Yep, that is business architecture + politics = business politecture. This post is the bookend to No. 34 on business marketecture, both of which remind us that there is more to introducing business architecture to […]

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In Search of Greatness: How to Find or Be a Great Business Architect

3 September 2018

What makes a “great” business architect is a topic of much curiosity and debate. So this installment of StraightTalk is about you, business architect, and what makes you tick. P.S. Check out Post No. 6 for some background on what business architects do. First, born or made? Great business architects are probably more “made” through […]

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Making the Grade: Assessing Business Architecture

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 […]

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Being on the SAFe Side: How Business Architecture and Agile Fit Together

7 May 2018

StraightTalk has another BFF and it is agile. Here in Post No. 27 we will talk about a hot topic with our guest star, Alex Randell, who gives us the straight talk on what all of this agile stuff means and how business architecture can help. This post is based on our recent interview with […]

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The Canvas Awaits—How Business Models and Business Architecture Fit Together

16 April 2018

Get ready for some StraightTalk on a topic we all love: business models. Here in Post No. 26, our shining guest star, Linda Finley, talks about what they are and how they are BFF (Best Friends Forever) with business architecture. This installment is based on our recent interview with her. Disclaimer: we’ve made some tiny […]

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