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  • Business Architecture

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:How To Embed BA In The Organization

    Continuous Improvement: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Gordon Barnett, Derek MiersJune 12, 2013

    While IT planning is a common starting point for business architecture (BA) efforts, the methods and techniques really come into their own when applied to critical business problems. BA addresses a...

    • Downloads: 70

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Optimize Your Business Process Excellence Program To Meet Shifting Priorities

    Continuous Improvement: The Business Process Management Playbook

    Clay RichardsonJune 6, 2013

    Business process management (BPM) initiatives frequently start with a tactical process improvement charter, but they get pushed to play a more strategic role across the enterprise — often being...

    • Downloads: 95
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Business Architecture 2020 — Extending Beyond Organizational Boundaries

    Future Look: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Gordon Barnett, Derek MiersMay 29, 2013

    The rise of business architecture (BA) initiatives has resulted in a rapidly maturing business architecture body of knowledge. Today, business architecture practices focus within the boundaries of a...

    • Downloads: 184

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:The State Of Business Architecture And Business Architects In 2013

    Landscape: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Gordon BarnettMarch 27, 2013

    Interest in business architecture (BA) is high across firms. The more mature and successful BA practices collaboratively work with business leaders and executives to address their current and future...

    • Downloads: 289

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Develop The Implementation Road Map For BPM Excellence

    Road Map: The Business Process Management Playbook

    Derek Miers, Clay RichardsonFebruary 21, 2013

    Developing an effective road map for business process management (BPM) is imperative if your initiative is to avoid a premature death. Managing processes effectively implies using processes to manage...

    • Downloads: 378

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Benchmark Business Architecture Performance

    Benchmarks: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Craig Le ClairFebruary 8, 2013

    Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture (BA) to help assess and plan them —...

    • Downloads: 264

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:The State Of EA 2013: Information And Business Architecture Take Hold; New Hardships Arise

    Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook

    Tim DeGennaroFebruary 8, 2013

    Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

    • Downloads: 504
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Using Tools And Technology For Business Architecture Programs

    Tools And Technologies: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Tim DeGennaroJanuary 3, 2013

    Business architecture (BA) programs rely on a set of models and methods that often benefit from being linked to each other and to other external data sources. For some enterprise architects,...

    • Downloads: 472
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Create A Business Architecture Program That Helps Your Business Manage Change

    Executive Overview: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Alex CullenNovember 14, 2012

    Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. There may be multiple programs to improve customer experience, co-existing alongside projects to reduce costs, streamline internal...

    • Downloads: 652
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:How To Implement Digital Business Design

    Move Deliberately, But Carefully, Toward Forrester's Vision For The Future Of Integration

    Randy HeffnerNovember 8, 2012

    Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need a foundation for recasting their integration strategies to meet 21st-century demands for business agility. Forrester's vision for...

    • Downloads: 325
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

    Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Alex CullenOctober 24, 2012

    Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

    • Downloads: 719
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Develop A Stakeholder-Focused Business Architecture Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Gordon Barnett, Derek MiersOctober 24, 2012

    This report is designed to help business architecture (BA) leaders construct a strategy meeting the needs of the organization's key stakeholders. Many organizations are reinventing or redesigning...

    • Downloads: 489
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Organize Your Business Architecture To Deliver Your Strategy

    Organization: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Gordon BarnettOctober 24, 2012

    This report assists business architecture (BA) leaders in organizing the BA roles and skills needed to successfully execute a business architecture program. One of the major challenges facing...

    • Downloads: 427
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Drive Process Innovation Using BPM Technologies, Methods, And COEs

    Executive Overview: The Business Process Management Playbook

    Alex CullenOctober 4, 2012

    In the midst of continuous change — from technology, market, and competitive forces — businesses must become skilled at transforming and inventing new processes while improving their...

    • Downloads: 559
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Define The Shifting Responsibilities Of The Information Architect

    Organization: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

    Gene LeganzaSeptember 28, 2012

    This report outlines the organization element of the information strategy and architecture playbook for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals. The definition of the information architect role...

    • Downloads: 636
    • Comments: 3
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Assessing Organizational Readiness For A Business Architecture Program

    Assessment: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Tim DeGennaro, Derek MiersSeptember 25, 2012

    Business architecture (BA) provides a coordinating framework for organizational analysis and change, helping to integrate different groups of stakeholders who often pursue subtly divergent...

    • Downloads: 430
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Build Your Skills Development Road Map For Achieving BPM Excellence

    Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook

    Clay Richardson, Claire SchooleySeptember 20, 2012

    Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

    • Downloads: 364
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Navigate Digital Disruption With An Emerging Technology Vision

    Vision: The Emerging Technology Playbook

    Brian HopkinsSeptember 18, 2012

    Emerging information technology has been a key enabler of business evolution since the 1960s and shows no signs of letting up. As we move beyond simple digitization of information to digital business...

    • Downloads: 416

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Identify Essential Methods For Your Business Architecture Program

    Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Derek MiersSeptember 7, 2012

    Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

    • Downloads: 584
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Focus On The Transformational Impact Of Business Architecture

    Business Impact: The Business Architecture Playbook

    Derek MiersSeptember 7, 2012

    This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on business architecture. This report is designed to help you align the strategic...

    • Downloads: 533
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Build Your Stepwise Strategy For Business-Centered EA

    Strategic Plan: The EA Method Playbook

    Randy HeffnerAugust 31, 2012

    This report describes the strategic plan of Forrester's EA method playbook — our set of high-value practices that enterprise architects should use to help their organizations plan, architect,...

    • Downloads: 448

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Architect For The Next Digital Decade

    Vision: The EA Method Playbook

    Randy HeffnerAugust 31, 2012

    In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

    • Downloads: 664
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Craft Your Business Change Delivery Process For Sustainable Business Agility

    Implementation And Operation Methods: The EA Method Playbook

    Randy HeffnerAugust 31, 2012

    IT's traditional approach to delivering business change is broken. Siloed solution delivery projects struggle to keep up with the pace of business. Agile development, lean software, and business...

    • Downloads: 370

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Develop A Business-Centered Enterprise Architecture That Boosts Agility

    Executive Overview: The EA Method Playbook

    Alex Cullen, Henry PeyretAugust 31, 2012

    Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

    • Downloads: 738
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Justify The Value Of Achieving Sustainable Business Agility

    Business Impact: The EA Method Playbook

    Henry PeyretAugust 31, 2012

    This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives who want to enhance their current EA method to address both agility and costs at the same...

    • Downloads: 306
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