Contributed by: Simona Lovin, Director of Operations and Strategic Initiatives, Leidos
Over the past decade, the Business Architecture community of practice has built a firm foundation of methods, practices and tools that allow organizations to map their place in the business world, assess the viability of their capabilities, and chart a course towards their future. And yet, Business Architecture still has a long way to go to permeate the public consciousness. In fact, while concepts such as change, disruption, and innovation have fired up the imagination of entire industries, Business Architecture’s public brand as a game-changer has drawn more muted reactions, as the Google Trends diagram below starkly demonstrates.
Figure 1: Google Trends graph (dated 9/16/2017), keywords: disruption, innovation, Business Architecture
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