Whynde Kuehn interviews business architecture mogul, William Ulrich on how business and IT architecture relate in this featured StraightTalk podcast. William Ulrich is President of TSG, Inc., President, Business Architecture Guild,® Cutter Consortium Fellow, and Business Architecture Associates (BAA) Partner. Bill mentors major corporations and government agencies worldwide, helping enable strategy realization and business / IT transformation via business architecture. He is author/coauthor of three seminal books: Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies, and Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies. Bill helped coalesce disparate forces and disciplines to move business architecture from an art to a science, driving mobilization of the Guild’s global business architecture community. He co-chairs OMG’s Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force and is a Certified Business Architect (CBA).®