Ecosystem Is The New Organization: How Business Architecture #Capabilities and #ValueStreams Can Connect Everything

3 June 2019

Yellow is the new black. 40 is the new 20. Ecosystem is the new organization. Remember all that business over the last two installments about business objects as the glue for business architecture (Post. No. 52) and the importance of creating capability maps in the same way (Post No. 51)? This is where it becomes […]

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Putting the Pieces Together: Business Objects As The Glue For A Business Architecture

20 May 2019

In this installment of StraightTalk, we return to the idea of business objects, and the important role they play throughout an organization’s business architecture – and why it matters. We will do some serious condensing here of the BIZBOK® Guide to help you put the pieces together and understand how it all works. Why? Well, […]

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S2E Brings a Business Architecture Perspective to Business Analyst Development Days

13 May 2019

S2E Transformation was delighted to participate in the Business Analyst Development Days in Des Moines, IA and Albany, NY during May 2019 to create broader awareness and educate on the business architecture. S2E presented on business architecture and its role in end-to-end organizational agility in both Albany and Des Moines, as well as delivered a […]

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What’s In A Word: How to Create a Capability Map That Unlocks New Value

6 May 2019

Before we get into some more fancy stuff, we need to have a solid foundation to build upon, so we return to our business architecture bedrock: capabilities. This StraightTalk installment shines a light on the realities of capability mapping and helps us to interpret some key concepts in the BIZBOK® Guide in an effort to […]

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Living The Dream: How to Integrate Business Architecture With Strategy Execution

15 April 2019

This marks the 50th installment of StraightTalk, and we’re returning to our roots. Waaay back in Post No. 3, we introduced a new vision for strategy execution and explored how business architecture could help to enable it. We called it the Strategy Execution Metanoia, because a metanoia is a transformational moment – when you see […]

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