Establishing a Business Architecture Practice: A Practical Approach
Establishing a successful, sustainable business architecture practice is a journey that takes time, particularly for large organizations. This article provides a practical roadmap on how to establish and mature a practice over time with consideration of the realities that organizations face along the way. (Published by the BA Institute.)
Building a Case for Business Architecture
Business architecture teams often struggle to articulate the value of business architecture. This Advisor (available to Cutter members only) provides guidance on how to develop a case for business architecture and communicate its value to an organization. (Published by the Cutter Consortium)
Business-Driven Digital Transformation
More than just a bullet point in a strategy session or the current buzzword, digital transformation begins with big visions and strategies, but the organizations that can execute upon them in a coordinated way, with agility, will win. S2E Principal, Whynde Kuehn, served as guest editor for the August/September double-issue of Cutter IT Journal, focused on business-driven digital transformation. Kuehn’s introduction provides an overview of how to approach digital transformation from a truly top-down, business-driven perspective and sets the tone for the Journal. An extended summary of this introduction is available from the Cutter IT Journal. Full access to the introduction and the rest of the issue is granted to Cutter Consortium members.
Designing an Effective Business Architecture Team
The role and structure of the business architecture team contributes significantly to both the effectiveness and success of an internal business architecture practice. Whynde Kuehn, Principal of S2E Transformation, discusses the importance of teams and roles in her article published by the BAInstitue.org.
Maturing a Business Architecture Practice: The Promise and the Path
Published by the Cutter Consortium, this Executive Update (available to Cutter members only) provides business architecture practitioners a clear vision of what a fully mature business architecture practice looks like, the value it brings to the organization, and a practical perspective on how to get there. (Published by the Cutter Consortium)
Cornerstones of a Business Architecture Practice
Whether driven by top-down mandate or won through demonstrated bottom-up success, there is a point when business architecture achieves “enough” acceptance within an organization to formalize an internal practice. While there are many steps to take throughout the journey of establishing and maturing a business architecture practice, there are four cornerstones that when put into place, can accelerate the process and create significant clarity. (published by the BA Institute).
Communicating the Value of Business Architecture
Articulating the value of business architecture within our organizations is one of the most important things that we need to do and do well—the results of which can ultimately determine if business architecture is embraced and how it is positioned. However, this can be a real challenge and barrier to growth for many business architecture practices. Here are Do’s and Don’ts for communicating Business Architecture value. (published by the BA Institute).
Business Architecture: Setting the Record Straight
A reprint of Chapter 2, Part 1 of the book, Business and Dynamic Change: The Arrival of Business Architecture, Published by Future Strategies, Inc. Copyright © 2015 William M. Ulrich and Whynde Kuehn (Revised January 2019)
Business Architecture: Dispelling Twelve Common Myths
Business architecture is not a buzzword or a quick fix solution for a broken process, a computer system, or a single project or business unit. It is a holistic discipline that is most effective when applied across business units, practices, disciplines, and stakeholders. This paper provides a brief introduction to business architecture, describes and dispels twelve commonly held misconceptions or myths, and gives a glimpse of the future. Copyright © 2015 William M. Ulrich and Whynde Kuehn (Revised January 2019).