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Building a Business Architecture Practice

1. GC BizArc CoP – Action Plan for Building a Business Architecture Practice
2. Gartner – 8 Steps to Start or Restart a High-Impact, Business-Outcome Driven EA Program
3. Gartner – 5 Ways to Upgrade Your Business Architecture Practices
4. S2E Consulting Inc – Guidance For Establishing Business Architecture Practice
5. S2E Consulting Inc – Business Architecture Practice Components
6. S2E Consulting Inc – Ways of Working for a Successful Business Architect
7. S2E Consulting Inc – Straight Talk on Business Architecture
8. Real IRM – Approaches to Business Architecture
9. URM UK Connect – How to Build a Successful Business Architecture Practice

Communicating Value Proposition for Business Architecture

1. Business Architecture Guild – Communicating the Value Proposition of Business Architecture to C-Level Executives
2. Gartner – Why Business Models Matter for CIOs
3. S2E Consulting Inc – 5 Tenets of Socializing Business Architecture
4. S2E Consulting Inc – The Value of Business Architecture
5. CIO Solutions – Business Architecture: Putting “Business” into Enterprise Architecture
6. Communicating EA Value – So what’s with the ducks?
7. OSFI-BSIF – GC Business Architecture Blueprints video or via YouTube

Business Architectures and Transformational Initiatives

1. Business Architecture Associates – The Gateway to Transforming an Organization into an Agile Enterprise
2. Gartner – Rethink the IT Strategic Plan
3. Research Gate – How EA Improves the Quality of IT Investment Decisions

TOGAF (Open Group) Reference Materials

Website: https://www.opengroup.org/togaf

1. Advancement of Business Architecture in the TOGAF® Ecosystem, September 2018
2. TOGAF® Series Guide: Business Capabilities
3. TOGAF® Series Guide: Value Streams

BIZBOK (Business Architecture Guild) Reference Materials

Website: https://www.businessarchitectureguild.org/page/002

1. What Is Business Architecture? Business Architecture Simplified and Differentiated White Paper, June 2018
2. Business Architecture Course Highlights, November 2020

STUDIES

1. GARTNER Research on BCM Report - Research completed by Gartner and presented to the Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice (EA CoP) April 28, 2022. NOTE: There are NO plans to make changes to the current BCM based on this report.

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