STRAIGHT TALK — THE BLOG
Putting the Pieces Together: Business Objects As The Glue For A Business Architecture
By Whynde Kuehn | 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, […]
What’s In A Word: How to Create a Capability Map That Unlocks New Value
By Whynde Kuehn | 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 […]
Living The Dream: How to Integrate Business Architecture With Strategy Execution
By Whynde Kuehn | 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 […]
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Dos and Don’ts For Establishing a Business Architecture Practice
By Whynde Kuehn | 1 April 2019
This installment gives you the straight talk on some serious dos and don’ts for establishing a business architecture practice within an organization. We’ll ground our conversation by reflecting on a fundamental concept of the business architecture discipline — often misunderstood — that will assist in guiding you and help you to stay on the right […]
Seeing Is Believing, Part 3 – How Business Architecture Practices Can Leverage Storytelling for Greater Success
Guest starring: Tamara Park
By Whynde Kuehn | 18 March 2019
Welcome to the last epic installment of our visual and storytelling StraightTalk series, in which we explore the power of story. We know that in order to succeed as business architects, it’s not just about creating architectures and ideas for the future – we also need to convey those ideas, influence others, and incite action. […]