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Top Business Architecture
books you must read.

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, staying competitive and

adaptable is essential. To thrive in this dynamic world, understanding
the core principles of business architecture is paramount. Whether
you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned executive, or a curious
student, gaining insight into the intricate framework of business is a
valuable investment. Fortunately, there's a wealth of knowledge
available in the form of books that can guide you on this enlightening
journey. In this article, we present a curated list of business
architecture books that are sure to inspire, educate, and transform the
way you approach your professional endeavors.

Business Architecture books sorted by topic

SYSTEMS THINKING

The Fifth Discipline

"The Fifth Discipline" advocates for the creation of

learning organizations that continuously adapt and
evolve in response to changing circumstances. By
embracing the five disciplines and fostering a culture of
learning and collaboration, organizations can better
navigate the complexities of the modern business
environment and achieve enduring success.

Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos

and Complexity

"Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity"

promotes the idea of self-organizing systems, holistic,
operational and design thinking. This book covers
everything from the recent financial crisis to the
housing bubble and assess the impact on systems
 thinking; providing an operational methodology for
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defining problems and design solutions for change.

BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DISCIPLINE

The Art and Practice of

Business Transformation

Business Architecture maps and documents the

essence of the enterprise. Visualizing a business
through architectural disciplines is not entirely new.
Creating a business-friendly framework that allows
business professionals to visualize and transform
organizations. This book puts the business back in the
driver’s seat when it comes to setting strategy,
crystallizing a vision and turning that vision into bottom
line business value.

The Business Architecture Quick

Guide: A Brief Guide for Game
Changers

The Quick Guide has a singularly focused purpose: to

demystify business architecture for those business
professionals likely to benefit from it the most. The
Quick Guide represents the collective experiences of a
worldwide community of practice, courtesy of the
Business Architecture Guild®, and not just another
opinion piece or the musings of a single individual. Look
no further for the answers on business architecture;
they are right here in this “little big book for game
changers.”

Business and Dynamic Change: The

Arrival of Business Architecture

This book represents the collaborative work of the

industry's top experts, and thought leaders.
Understand that the term "business" used this way is
not limited to for-profit enterprises but includes all
forms of organizations that have a strategic need to
accomplish goals. Pragmatically speaking, business
architecture is the conceptual understanding that
people have on why particular choices were made in
forming the organization in a particular way. This book
will help you understand your options and how to
relate them to your own organization.
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE CORE DOMAINS

Value Networks and the

true nature of collaboration

Value Networks and the true nature of collaboration

meets this challenge head on with a systematic, human-
network approach to managing business operations
and ecosystems. Value network modelling and analytic
s provide better support for collaborative, emergent
work and complex activities. With examples from
everyday work teams through complex large-scale
networks, this book simply and coherently lays out the
new basics of collaborative work design and value
creating networks. It explains the underlying concepts
and shows how to map, analyze, and leverage value
networks in a way that supports high social values and
ethical practices and achieve fast business results.

The Great Transition: Using the

Seven Disciplines of Enterprise
Engineering to Align People,
Technology and Strategy

The book inductively shows the reader the importance

of alignment: align the corporation's goals with the
changes in the environment to ensure adaptiveness;
align employees with key objectives to build
momentum; align all activities, tasks, and performance
metrics with the corporate goals to increase
effectiveness. Alignment is done through enterprise
engineering.

One From Many: VISA and the Rise

of Chaordic Organization

Far more than a riveting inside story of the creation of

VISA—now the largest commercial enterprise on earth
—One from Many is an absorbing story of personal and
institutional transformation. A beautiful blend of
history, biography, and philosophy, One from Many not
only challenges the way we think about organizations,
management, and our relationship to the natural
world, it's a rollicking fine story as well.
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The Knowing Organization: How
Organizations use Information to
Construct Meaning, Create
Knowledge and Make Decisions

An organization uses information strategically in three

areas: to make sense of change in its environment; to
create new knowledge for innovation; and to make
decisions about courses of action. Through knowledge
creation, the insights of individuals are converted into
knowledge that can be used to design new products or
improve performance. Finally, in decision making,
understanding and knowledge are focused on the
selection of and commitment to an appropriate course
of action. By holistically managing its sensemaking,
knowledge building and decision-making processes, the
Knowing Organization will have the necessary
understanding and knowledge to act wisely and
decisively.

STRATEGY ENABLEMENT

Business Model Generation:

A Handbook for Visionaries,
Game Changers and
Challengers

Business Model Generation is a handbook for

visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to
defy outmoded business models and design
tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to
adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a
strategy that will get you out in front of your
competitors, you need Business Model Generation. It
explains the most common Business Model patterns,
based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and
helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You
will learn how to systematically understand, design, and
implement a game-changing business model--or
analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll
understand at a much deeper level your customers,
distribution channels, partners, revenue streams,
costs, and your core value proposition.
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Enterprise Business Architecture:
The Formal Link Between Strategy
and Results

A critical part of any company's successful strategic

planning is the creation of an Enterprise Business
Architecture (EBA) with its formal linkages. Strategic
research and analysis firms have recognized the
importance of an integrated enterprise architecture
and they have frequently reported on its increasing
value to successful companies. Enterprise Business
Architecture: The Formal Link between Strategy and
Results explains the approach needed for the
development of a formal but pragmatic EBA.

Strategy to Reality: Making the

Impossible Possible

Within Strategy to Reality, Whynde Kuehn offers a well-

informed, holistic view that can transform and reshape
the world. She arms Business Architecture Practitioners
and Strategy Execution Leaders with the in-house
training and tools they need to close the gap between
strategy and successful execution. Whynde believes
that every organization needs to build their own
capacity for continuous change, and it is her goal that
they reach their goals, while gaining the “vision” they
need to see the clearest course of action and to weave
it all together.

Translating Strategy into Action:

The Balanced Scorecard

The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision

and strategy into a coherent set of performance
measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--
financial measures, customer knowledge, internal
business processes, and learning and growth--offer a
balance between short-term and long-term objectives,
between outcomes desired and performance drivers of
those outcomes, and between hard objective measures
and softer, more subjective measures.

Operating Model Canvas

This book, explaining the Operating Model Canvas,

shows you how to do this. It teaches you how to define
the main work processes, choose an organization
structure, develop a high-level blueprint of the IT
systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out
 floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers and
design a management system and scorecard with
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Model Canvas helps you to create a target operating
model aligned to your strategy. The book contains
more than 20 examples ranging from large multi-
nationals to government departments to small
charities and from an operating model for a business to
an operating model for a department of five people.
The book describes more than 15 tools, including new
tools such as the value chain map, the organization
model and the high-level IT blueprint. Most importantly,
the book contains two fully worked examples showing
how the tools can be used to develop a new operating
model.

DESIGN AND CASE MANAGEMENT

Intersection: How
Enterprise Design Bridges
the Gap Between Business,
Technology and People

This book gives designers, entrepreneurs, innovators,

and leaders a model and a comprehensive vocabulary
for tackling such deep-rooted challenges. The
Enterprise Design framework cuts through the
complexity of Strategic Design work, showing how to
navigate key aspects and bridge diverging viewpoints. In
9 case studies, the author looks at the way companies
like SAP, BBVA, IKEA, and Jeppesen (a Boeing Company)
apply design thinking and practice to shape their
enterprises. Moving from strategy to conceptual design
and concrete results, Intersection shows what is
relevant at which point, and what expertise to involve.

Mastering the Unpredictable: How

Adaptive Case Management Will
Revolutionize the Way That
Knowledge Workers Get Things
Done

The facilitation of knowledge work or what is

increasingly known as "Case Management" represents
the next imperative in office automation. The desire to
fully support knowledge workers within the workplace is
not new. What's new is that recent advances in
Information Technology now make the management of
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