Through updates and case studies, Whynde Kuehn provides useful insights for established business architecture practices as well as for teams just starting their business architecture journey. In this on-demand webinar Kuehn shares lessons from the trenches — business architecture in the real world.

For your EA program to “climb the ladder” to strategic relevance, one of the most important investments is in an integrated business architecture practice.

I predict that within the next three years the market for blockchain solutions will have progressed to the extent that the key infrastructure components will be available, security issues will be identified and mapped out, and experts available in applying the technology to specific applications and industries will start becoming available, thus providing the support for implementing and running blockchain applications on a daily operational basis.

Organizations today are constantly executing their corporate digitization strategies, requiring CIOs and IT leaders to engage with business stakeholders to deliver specific outcomes. Such engagement must be governed by the organization’s processes, operating model, and technology governance to ensure robust, scalable architectures and roadmaps.

This Advisor presents an overview of improving Agile techniques and practices by using design thinking within the Agile space and describes three techniques from design thinking methodologies that tend to yield benefits to Agile practitioners.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a borderless means for indiscriminate global economic participation. This will make it a significant part of the financial industry.

This Advisor discusses how scaling architectural process and artifacts to suit Agile practices enhances the value of the architect's role.

In this Update, we continue our discussion of mitigating business risk by examining the benefits of contextual software analysis and reviewing some of the static code analysis tools available today that can help track down defects at both the component level and the overall system level.

Innovation's potential is brought to fruition only when it is complemented by back-end cloud technologies.

This Executive Update is the second in a series focusing on the role of business architecture as a critical enabler of organizations to effectively operate, transform, and compete.

This Executive Update examines survey findings pertaining to the issues organizations say are challenging their blockchain adoption efforts.

This Executive Update examines survey findings pertaining to the issues organizations say are challenging their blockchain adoption efforts.

There is no technology that will allow us to generate more time or produce a substitute for time, but technological advances do enable more efficient use of time, thus maximizing its utility.

The EVM method was first developed to help manage complex R&D projects, which are mostly characterized by an unstable, volatile, and evolving scope. It is therefore no surprise that EVM applies to Agile projects.

Successful digital transformation requires strategic architecture thinking.

In this Executive Report, we expand on a previous report on robotic process automation and cognitive automation by establishing action principles for service automation strategy, service automation launch, change management, and building mature service automation capabilities.

In this Executive Report, we expand on a previous report on robotic process automation and cognitive automation by establishing action principles for service automation strategy, service automation launch, change management, and building mature service automation capabilities.

The accompanying Executive Report is the second of two in a Cutter series on smart service automation. It provides rich insights into 20 client organizations and how they achieved high performance in their adoption of robotic process automation (RPA) and cognitive automation (CA) tools.

The accompanying Executive Report is the second of two in a Cutter series on smart service automation. It provides rich insights into 20 client organizations and how they achieved high performance in their adoption of robotic process automation (RPA) and cognitive automation (CA) tools.

Upper management is starting to take a real interest in blockchain technology, and they are asking their technology and innovation people, “Hey, what can we do with this?”

Software-related business risk is an increasing portion of business risk, so knowing how to assiduously reduce software risk has become part and parcel of today’s business reality. Fortunately, there is an array of tools and methods that you can apply across your portfolio of software assets and development projects to manage software risk, which we’ll explore in this Executive Update.

The existence of a digital backbone in an organization means that anyone aspiring and planning to transform different parts of the enterprise can leverage the digital backbone in a consistent and sustainable way, ensuring that each transformation effort connects and leverages a common platform. Digital transformation leaders are starting to realize that a powerful digital services backbone to facilitate rapid innovation and responsiveness is key to successfully executing on a digital strategy.

One individual must align the value stream to enterprise strategy and orchestrate the activities within each value stream with a complete end-to-end perspective, engaging consumers and keeping their value clearly in view. In this way, everyone engaged in the value stream shares a common purpose and can quickly spot obstacles to flow, so that they can prioritize and continuously improve together as one.

Leading companies recognize that digital disruption presents multiple growth opportunities, including delighting their customers with convenience and personalization, leveraging the wealth of data trails from digital activity to get even closer to the customer, and using technology to operate faster and better.

For your EA program to “climb the ladder” to strategic relevance, one of the most important investments is in an integrated business architecture practice.