Ask a senior executive whether their organisation has an AI operating model and the answer will almost certainly be: “We’re working on it.”
They are wrong. The model already exists. It is
Value networks have sat in our discipline for decades. We walked right past them.
Business Architecture has a problem with its own toolkit.
We have spent two decades convincing organisations that capability maps
Here is a thought experiment. Take your organisation's most complex delivery challenge last year — a regulatory programme, a product launch, a major incident. Now look at the org chart. How many
In my article published here in September 2025, I asked whether Business Architecture had become the new PMO — an expensive governance layer that slows delivery rather than shaping it. The response was striking.
Business Architecture doesn’t fail because stakeholders “don’t get capabilities.”
It fails when we try to sell the discipline, instead of landing the insight.
After 20+ years working across financial services, public
