The Execution Challenge

Chapter 8Scaling and Maturing the Strategic Business Architecture Function

In this chapter, we will bring the key concepts and components together into a cohesive plan for scaling and maturing a strategic business architecture function that can successfully support strategy execution across an organization. This is a journey, and one that needs to be pursued with intent, vision, leadership, empathy, and persistence. Introducing a comprehensive approach to strategy execution enabled by strategic business architecture is a human journey more than an architecture journey. It's about changing the ways of thinking and working within an organization, and that takes time, demonstration of value, and careful management of change.

We will also explore how to build a career path for strategic business architecture and how to govern the architecture to support business decision-making and change. Finally, we will discuss the important role of leadership in creating a strategic business architecture function that is truly visionary and transformative.

Components of a Strategic Business Architecture Function

The most critical component of a strategic business architecture function is, of course, value realization. The entire reason for investing in the creation of a strategic business architecture knowledge base and function is for the unique value and insights that it brings to strategy execution. As Chapter 7 highlighted, value measurement is key to ensure that the strategic business ...