Business architecture : the missing link in strategy formulation, implementation and execution / Pierre Hadaya, Bernard Gagnon.

1. Introduction — 2. Contributing to strategy formulation — 3. Architecting the target business architecture — 4. Elaborating the transformation plan — 5. Engaging and governing — 6. Putting it all together — 7. Leadership agenda.

History has shown that having a competitive advantage is critical to the success and long-term viability of all organizations. However, creating and sustaining such an advantage is a challenge. Organizations must formulate a winning strategy, surpass competitors at implementing and executing it, and excel at adapting in response to internal and external events. Although organizations have applied numerous best practices to help them succeed in their strategic endeavors, they still face serious difficulties, which they can only surmount by adopting business architecture. The goal of this book is to describe what business architecture is; how it can help meet the challenge of formulating, implementing and executing an organization’s strategy; and how to build and exploit a superior strategy management system that leverages business architecture.