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Past Community Meeting Presentations

September 2023 Community Meeting: Coming Soon
July 2023 Community Meeting: Coming Soon
May 2023 Community Meeting: Coming Soon
April 2023 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture: A Pulse on Our Progression” TCBAF Community Meeting Bus Arch Pulse
February 2023 Community Meeting: “Strategy Mapping Fundamentals”

October 2022 Community Meeting: “Product-Centric operating models”
August 2022 Community Meeting: “Women In Architecture”
June 2022 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture Community of Practice at Cargill”
April 2022 Community Meeting: “The Strategy Journey; our TCBAF Community members will share what we’ve been learning in our Book Study discussions.”

October 2021 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture: Strategy Execution’s Secret Weapon”
August 2021 Community Meeting: “Essential Architectural Modeling: A minimalist approach to a complete, correct, and consistent path from idea to solution.”
June 2021 Community Meeting: “Envisioning Change”
April 2021 Community Meeting: “Should (business) architecture play a role in innovation and a start up organization?”
February 2021 Community Meeting: “Jobs to be Done: Learn how Business Architects leverage Professor Clayton Christianson’s popular product development theory, Jobs to be Done” TCBAF Community Meeting Jobs To Be Done

September 2020 Community Meeting: “Using Personas and Value Proposition to Define a Business Architecture Consulting Service”
July 2020 Community Meeting: “Realizing Value through Business Architecture – the Medtronic Journey”
May 2020 Community Meeting: “Linking Architecture Practices to Meet Market Demands” TCBAF Community Meeting at Prime
January 2020 Community Meeting: “Driving Product Value with Systematic Innovation”

September 2019 Community Meeting: “Using Business Architecture for Application Rationalization”
July Community Meeting: “Design Thinking” hosted by Medtronic, July 16, 2019 TCBAF Community Meeting Medtronic HCD Crash Course
May Community Meeting: “Platform as a Business Model” hosted by Thrivent Financial, May 21, 2019 Platform as a Business Model
March Community Meeting: “How to Implement Vision” hosted at Prime Therapeutics, March 19, 2019 How to Implement Vision
January 2019 Community Meeting: “Value Mapping” hosted at US Bank, January 22, 2019 Value Mapping

September 2018 Community Meeting: TCBAF SIG (Special Interest working Group) Presentation “Exploring the Strategy Toolkit: A Practitioner’s Guide” hosted by Target, September 18, 2018 TCBAF Strategy to Execution SIG vF
July 2018 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture and IT Strategy” hosted by Medtronic – July 18, 2018 TCBAF Medtronic – 17Jul2018 (external)-compressed
May 2018 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture: Adapting to Changing Environments” hosted by Thrivent Financial, May 15, 2018 Business Architecture Forum (1) 2018-05-15 TCBAF Community Meeting Notes
March 2018 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture in a Product Centric Organization” hosted by Express Scripts, March 20, 2018
January 2018 Community Meeting: “Placeholder Title” hosted by Metropolitan State University, January 23, 2018

“The (2nd Annual) Business Architecture Summit” hosted by Cargill, December 7, 2017
September 2017 Community Meeting: “Strategic Planning 101” hosted by Target, September 19, 2017 TCBAF – Target Meeting 091917fin
July 2017 Community Meeting: “The Intersection Between IT Delivery and Business Architecture” hosted by Medtronic, July 18, 2017 Intersection Between IT Delivery and Business Architecture)
May 2017 Community Meeting: “Placeholder Title” hosted by Thrivent Financial, May
March 2017 Community Meeting: “The Opportunity Canvas” hosted by Express Scripts, April 11, 2017 April 11 Community meeting recap , Opportunity Canvas – TCBAF vfinal

January 2017 Community Meeting: “Business Architecture Tools” hosted by Metropolitan State University, January 19, 2016 Target TCBAF Presentation – 2016-01-19 – BA Tool (3)
“The (1st Annual) Business Architecture Summit” hosted by Cargill, December 2, 2016

“The Persona of a Business Architect” hosted by Thrivent Financial, May 19, 2015 TCBAF – The Persona of a Business Architect – 5.19.15

“Business Architecture: Dealing with Organizational Context” hosted by Thrivent Financial – May 20, 2014 (Invitation)
“Business Architecture: The True Life Story of Express Scripts‚ “Biggest Year Ever!” hosted by Express Scripts – March 18, 2014 (Surviving the perfect storm)
“Business Architecture: Undercover role or promising profession?” hosted by Metropolitan State University – January 21, 2014 ( Uncover role or promising profession)

“Business Architecture Value Applied at Cargill” hosted by Cargill – November 19, 2013 (Invitation)
“Putting the “Business” into Business Architecture” hosted by Target – September 17, 2013 (Invitation, Handout)
“Business Architecture: Telling and Selling the Value Proposition” hosted by Trissential – July 16, 2013 (Presentation, Accelare Presentation, Invitation)
“Business Architecture: The Cost of Capabilities” hosted by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans – May 21, 2013 (Presentation, Invitation, IT Cost Transparency Discussion, IT Cost Transparency Update)
“Assessing Capability Gaps” hosted by Metropolitan State University – January 15, 2013 (Presentation, Invitation)

“Cargill’s Business Architecture Journey” hosted by Cargill – November 13, 2012 (Presentation, Invitation)
“Managing Your Business Process Architecture” hosted by Target – September 18, 2012 (Presentation, Invitation)
“Business Architecture: Panel of Pros” hosted by Trissential – July 17, 2012 (Presentation, Invitation)
“Information Architecture; Roadmap Sustainability and Governance” hosted by Thrivent – May 15, 2012 (Presentation, Invitation)
“Let’s talk tools!” hosted by Express Scripts – March 20, 2012
(Presentation, Invitation)
“Looking Back, Leading Forward” hosted by Metropolitan State University – January 17, 2012 (Presentation, Session Notes, Model 1, Model 2, Invitation)

“The Face of Business Architecture to the Organization” hosted by Cargil – November 15, 2011 (Roundtable Report Out)
“Managing Your Business Architecture” hosted by Target – September 20, 2011 (Session Notes)
“Gaining Essential Awareness of Your Organization Through Business Architecture” hosted by Trissential – July 19, 2011 (Presentation, Invitation)
“Job Posting Review” hosted by Express Scripts – March 15, 2011 (Presentation, Business Architecture Responsibilities List, Invitation)
“Growing Business Architects” hosted by Metropolitan State University – January 18, 2011 (Presentation, Survey Results, Invitation)

“Modeling Your Company’s Business Capabilities” hosted by Cargill – November 16, 2010 (Presentation, Invitation)
“Business Model Framework” hosted by Target – September 21, 2010 (Presentation, Invitation)