STRAIGHT TALK — THE BLOG
Servant First: How Servant Leadership Makes Business Architects More Impactful
By Whynde Kuehn | 16 December 2019
Well, this is the last StraightTalk of the year (sniff) and with the holiday season upon us, it’s a good time to reflect and expand our perspective. We all know that being a successful business architect or having a successful business architecture practice is not only about what we do, but also about how we […]
We Are The World: A Global Snapshot of Business Architecture Today and Trending
By Whynde Kuehn | 2 December 2019
As we’re nearing the end of another trip around the sun, it’s a good time to reflect on our global business architecture community, the discipline and to look forward and dream. Here’s some food for thought as you do your own reflections, both individually as well as perhaps with your internal business architecture team and […]
The Business Architect Imperative: Showing Up With Wow
By Whynde Kuehn | 18 November 2019
Business architecture and the business architect role continue to expand and mature across the globe. There has also been a shift in the way we practice the discipline. Collectively, we are increasingly business-focused, value-oriented and strategically-minded. That means putting the business in business architecture first and remembering that things — like building the architecture knowledgebase […]
The Enterprise Advocate: How Business Architecture Brings Clarity to Customers and Products
By Whynde Kuehn | 4 November 2019
Business architects are advocates. For who? For the enterprise. In the daily busyness of strategizing, transforming, implementing new technologies, adapting to new methods, continuously improving, making sure to stay compliant — and of course delivering for customers — it is easy to get very focused on our initiatives, our products, our business units, our pressures, […]
Semper Paratus (Always Ready): Digital Readiness and How Business Architecture Can Accelerate Preparedness
By Whynde Kuehn | 21 October 2019
Digital transformation. Digital strategy. Digital economy. Digital technology. Everything digital. But what does it really mean and how do we get ready for such a thing? Can we ever be ready? This installment of StraightTalk explores the topic of digital readiness: what it is, how we measure it, how we get there – and how […]