Imagine your team has designed a business architecture for your company, and now you have ten minutes to present your findings and recommendations to the CEO.
What do you say? How can you get them believing beyond a shadow of a doubt that your recommendations are the best way forward?
I had the opportunity to hear some of these pitches from the CEO’s chair while three teams presented their solutions to a case study scenario.
As architecture practitioners our ability to deliver exceptional results is often dependent on our ability to connect with business stakeholders. Unfortunately some practitioners struggle with this. Effective communication between practitioners and stakeholders is crucial obtaining the information needed to drive architecture and therefore, the ability to connect with and understand key stakeholders is fundamental to the architect’s arsenal.
