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The Unexpected Part 4: Expect the Unexpected — How Business Architecture Can Help to Build Resilient and Adaptable Organizations
By Whynde Kuehn | 18 May 2020
This is the fourth and final 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. We’ve covered incident preparation, response, and recovery,* so now we will turn our focus to resilience. *Here’s a handy diagram that summarizes everything we’ve […]
The Unexpected, Part 3: Recovery — Leveraging Business Architecture To Recover From The Unexpected
By Whynde Kuehn | 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 […]
The Unexpected, Part 2: Preparation — Leveraging Business Architecture to Prepare for the Unexpected
By Whynde Kuehn | 20 April 2020
This is the second installment of a multi-part StraightTalk series on how business architecture can help an organization 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 […]
The Unexpected, Part 1: Response – Leveraging Business Architecture to Respond to the Unexpected
By Whynde Kuehn | 6 April 2020
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming. We are postponing our originally planned post to bring you this breaking series. We strive to keep StraightTalk relevant, timely, cutting edge and engaging. In light of the rapidly developing coronavirus pandemic, we believe a focus on leveraging business architecture to help organizations navigate the unexpected is highly valuable […]
Taking Initiative: How to Leverage Business Architecture for Initiative Planning
By Whynde Kuehn | 2 March 2020
Leveraging business architecture for prioritizing, scoping, shaping, sequencing, informing and rationalizing initiatives is one of the most common – and powerful – uses of business architecture. Smart initiative planning is critical to effective strategy execution, and leveraging business architecture for it inherently shifts mindsets in new ways that consider the bigger picture for the enterprise […]