Straight Talk - Business Architecture

Whynde Kuehn explores how the complementary disciplines of business architecture and organizational change management set up enterprises for success. Guest star Ken Williams, Certified Business Architect (CBA)® and Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP)®, reveals how the two distinct disciplines can successfully support change leaders to drive prosperous business outcomes.

In this StraightTalk podcast, Whynde Kuehn, has a conversation with Mike Rosen on the topic of BizOps. Rosen is a published author and recognized authority in the field of digital transformation, enterprise architecture, and business and application development. Rosen unpacks Business to Operations (or BizOps) by revealing how business architecture and BizOps can play a pivotal role in managing the end-to-end journey of creating, delivering, and monitoring business outcomes.

In this podcast, S2E Transformation founder, Whynde Kuehn, interviews Mike Clark, an experienced visionary business leader and delivery-focused strategist on the topic of how organizations can manage the unexpected by leveraging business design. Clark has a deep focus on capitalizing on current and emerging technologies for the benefits of business, whilst being able to consider the impact on people. He has a comprehensive background in shaping and bringing innovative products to market against challenging timelines. He also brings a unique combination of practical experience and a 360-holistic business and market awareness. Mike Clark has an understanding of the practicalities of running and managing a business, having worked across a variety of roles, responsible for sales, business change, strategy, right through to bringing products to market. The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Mike Clark and do not express the views or opinions of his employer.

Whynde Kuehn, the founder of S2E Transformation, interviews entrepreneur, innovator, business architect, and Unabomber survivor Gary Wright on the concept of Life Architecture: a framework that allows one to evaluate their personal strengths and weaknesses by providing a blueprint on how to best move forward when life changes suddenly and dramatically.

StraightTalk author, Whynde Kuehn, has a conversation with experienced business architect Jeff Dols on adopting a servant-leader mindset and how the characteristics of a servant-leader can benefit business architects to be more effective and far-reaching in their impact on organizations.

StraightTalk author, Whynde Kuehn, interviews Dr. Frank Granito, Chief Scientist, Partner, and Institute Fellow at the Institute for Digital Transformation on the concept of digital readiness and the critical role that business architecture can serve in accelerating an organization's preparedness for digital transformation.

In this StraightTalk podcast, Whynde Kuehn and business architecture guru, William Ulrich, explore how business architecture can enable the cognitive enterprise and ways organizations can begin the journey. Cognitive enterprise represents a shift in computing away from its traditionally programmatic approach to one that is probabilistic, where artificial intelligence and other transformative decision support play a leading role.

In this StraightTalk Podcast, Whynde Kuehn interviews Tamara Park, storyteller extraordinaire, on the power of story and how storytelling can be an inspiring and valuable tool for business architects to employ during organizational transformation. Tamara, an award-winning television producer and documentary series director, is the co-founder of StoryNow, which she describes as the first digital creative agency and production house you can take with you wherever you go.

In part two of this podcast series on graphic facilitation and graphic recording, Whynde Kuehn and business and strategy architect, Michael Pemberton, explore real-life graphic technique examples that can be used as creative methods to engage participants, at every level of an organization, to improve communication, understanding, and retention of information.

In this two-part podcast series, S2E Transformation founder and author of StraightTalk, Whynde Kuehn interviews illustrator Sarah Greer on how business architecture practices can leverage graphic recording and graphic facilitation for greater success.

S2E founder and industry thought leader, Whynde Kuehn, interviews Chicago-based presentation designer, James Jones, on how presentation design can perform a vital role in the success of business architecture.

Whynde Kuehn interviews two leading business architecture practitioners, Bryan Lail and Steve DuPont (both Certified Business Architects® from the Business Architecture Guild®), on key aspects about the TOGAF®–BIZBOK® Guide alignment.

In this StraightTalk Podcast installment, Whynde Kuehn interviews business and technology strategist Josué Batista on how business architecture can be used to leverage blockchain—an exciting emerging technology (also known as distributed ledger technology or DLT) that provides immutable data in a highly secure and encrypted manner for a host of industries and business applications.

Whynde Kuehn interviews Dr. Raj Ramesh on how business architecture can help organizations to leverage artificial intelligence (AI).

S2E founder, Whynde Kuehn and Business Architect, Alex Randell, explore how business architecture and agile processes can work together for improved delivery of products and services.

S2E founder and managing director, Whynde Kuehn, interviews Linda Finley on business models and business architecture.

Whynde Kuehn interviews customer experience (CX) guru Mike Clark on the interconnectedness of business architecture and CX.

Whynde Kuehn interviews business architecture leader William Ulrich on how business and IT architecture relate in this StraightTalk podcast.

In our first StraightTalk Podcast installment, Whynde Kuehn, noted author and S2E Transformation founder and managing director, interviews industry thought leader Mike Rosen on understanding enterprise and business architecture.

In this episode of IASA Global's podcast series, The Argument, IASA CEO, Paul Preiss has an unscripted, candid conversation with two leaders in architecture transformation and leadership: Whynde Kuehn and Eva Kammerfors. This discussion focuses on how to create a true business-impacting architecture practice, how to become a transformational chief architect, and how to help organizations manage change in a dynamic business environment. Participants discuss the qualities of bringing architects together, shared interactions between business and solution architects, and how to grow a practice that delivers on the promise of digital. Whynde Kuehn is the Founder and Managing Director of S2E Transformation, helping organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Whynde has extensive experience in enterprise transformation and planning and is a passionate advocate for using business architecture to enable effective strategy execution and digital transformation. Eva Kammerfors is an experienced enterprise and business architecture practitioner specializing in architecture management and governance, change leadership, and business and IT transformation. Eva is a Senior Advisor and owner of network organization Teama AB, where she acts as a mentor and leader in companies and organizations using architecture as a tool for digital transformation. Eva is an engaged speaker in the chief architect community, trainer in business and IT architecture and certifies Chief Architects at the Computer Society.