Straight Talk - Business Architecture

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.