Tier 1 — Start Here
Core Practice Foundation
Build the practice skills every business architect needs. These courses establish the foundation you'll apply in your sector.
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Courses
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Available Now
~64
Total Hours
Foundation Courses
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COR-BA-100Available
Closing the Strategy to Execution Gap
Learn to diagnose and close the four gaps that derail organizational alignment.
8 chapters16 hours
What you'll learn
- Name the specific gap breaking your organization's strategy, and explain it to a leadership team without a framework deck.
- Move through a disciplined cycle of discovery, strategic choice, capability design, and delivery, entering where your organization needs it most.
- Ask four questions that tell you, at any moment, whether your organization is doing the right things and actually getting the benefits.
- Recognize the patterns that cause organizations to break their own strategies before execution begins.
- Design a 90-day first cycle that demonstrates value before anyone is asked to believe in a new approach.
- Build an organization that gets stronger with each disruption, not just one that survives it.
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COR-BA-101Available
Building the Common Language
Build the shared models that turn strategy conversations from debate into design.
8 chapters16 hours
What you'll learn
- See exactly where your organization is paying the cost of missing shared vocabulary, and name it in terms leadership already feels.
- Read any business model, capability hierarchy, or operational recipe card and extract the strategic insight without formal modeling training.
- Evaluate a reference model against your own organizational context and know what to adopt, what to adapt, and what to leave behind.
- Use reference models at every stage of your strategic work, from diagnosing a broken business model to designing capabilities to governing delivery.
- Know what it takes to build and sustain shared vocabulary over time, and what organizational conditions determine whether it takes hold.
- Design a first reference model initiative scoped to deliver visible value before anyone is asked to commit to a new approach.
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COR-BA-102Available
Communicating Business Architecture
Translate architecture insights into language that moves decision-makers to act.
8 chapters16 hours
What you'll learn
- Take any architecture finding and reframe it for the specific room you're walking into, without losing the insight.
- Know what each stakeholder needs to hear, in what format, and at what moment , before you start communicating.
- Build the story that gets architecture findings from the model into someone else's decision.
- Design and lead the conversations that produce alignment, rather than presentations that inform without moving anyone.
- Write three pages that are more effective than forty, structured to earn a specific decision, not just to document your findings.
- Build an ongoing communication practice that keeps architecture visible and useful long after the crisis energy fades.
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COR-BA-103Available
Shaping What Gets Built
Ensure what gets built delivers the strategy — not just the project plan.
8 chapters16 hours
What you'll learn
- Recognize when your role shifts from designing to overseeing, and know what changes, who you're now working with, and what each relationship requires.
- Read any technical assessment of current systems and add the dimension the technical view leaves out: does this serve the architecture?
- Bridge from architecture artifacts to requirements that solution teams can act on, and verify that strategic intent survived the handoff.
- Evaluate any solution proposal, including AI and emerging platforms, against whether it actually closes the capability gap the architecture identified.
- Sequence a portfolio of change by what the architecture requires, not by political convenience or standalone business case strength.
- Track whether delivered solutions are closing the capability gaps they were funded to close, and feed what you learn back into the architecture so the cycle continues.
What You Walk Away With
Real work in your actual organization
Every foundation course produces a deliverable — not a worksheet. By the end you'll have a named diagnosis of your strategy-execution gap and a first action scoped to your organization's actual situation.
After Foundation: Apply It to Your Sector
Once you have the core practice skills, apply them even further in the context that matters most to you.