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Business Architecture & Business Model Interpretation

Contributed by: William Ulrich, President, TSG, Inc.
A new trend in business strategy development involves viewing your business from the perspective of the “business model”. The business model provides templates for business executives to think about their costs and...

Capability Mapping Shortcuts: The Risks & Advantages

Contributed by: William Ulrich, President, TSG, Inc.
More and more organizations are looking for ways to expedite capability mapping efforts – with limited success. Seeking shortcuts to establishing a robust baseline upon which to build business strategies and priorities,...

On the Edge with the Business Architecture

Contributed by: Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant
The title of this article may cause one to think about the “edge” in a “bleeding edge” context in that the Business Architecture (BA) represents a new high risk initiative that will most likely consume vast amounts of...

A Business Architecture Body of Knowledge

Contributed by: William Ulrich, President, TSG, Inc.
For a number of years business architecture was considered an art form, the domain of a handful of practitioners and consultants. Debates raged across standards groups and discussion boards over the use of capabilities...

The Sum of All Business Processes Is the Business Architecture

Contributed by: Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant
Many business and IT professionals have realized that one simple and easy way to describe the Business Architecture (BA) is to say that it represents the “sum of all business processes” for an enterprise (or business unit)....

Terminology Wars: Coming to Terms with our Terms

Contributed by: Diana Krohn, Sr. Enterprise Architect, United Airlines
Where Did We Go Wrong?  Business Architecture initiatives can be quickly derailed by a failure to align on vocabulary. A seemingly minor verbiage problem can hinder adoption, cause confusion, and alienate your...

Business Use Case Model Highlights Business Architecture Value

Contributed by: Andrew Guitarte, Vice President, Wells Fargo & Company
A less known but highly essential artifact of business architecture is the business use case model. A business use case (hereafter referred to as BUC) model is the higher abstraction of the system use case model (or...

Business Architecture and the End of Linear Thinking

Contributed by: Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant
One basic tenet of the Business Architecture (BA) is that it represents the enterprise wide integration of all business processes resulting in the Business Architecture model itself.  Perhaps some business and IT...

A Government Flavour to Business Architecture

Contributed by: Susan Brown, Ms, Object Consulting
Most articles written about Business Architecture reflect upon an organisations design within a private sector environment whereby the driving force in deciding the organisations direction is profit and loss....

Business Architecture for Everyone

Contributed by: Neal McWhorter, President, Strategic Value Partners
Leveraging Business Architecture for a Business Analysis Practice

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