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Thank you for being a valuable addition to the BAA membership in 2009    

1)  Your BAA 2009 dues funded the following advances: 

  • Recruited spectacular Volunteers from the BAA membership to serve as Board members (we welcome any and all help--join us!) 
  • Expanded BAA certification program from one to three courses
  • Published signature white paper “Business Architecture – An Emerging Profession”
  • Created Chicago Chapter.  Initial meeting held October 2009 was a success.
  • Established committees to develop and oversee efforts in regard to:

    • Member Services
    • Communities Services – supporting interest groups and chapters
    • Relationship Services – promoting collaborative affiliations with corporate leaders and other professional organizations
    • Educational Services
    • Marketing/Communications
    • Technology
    • Corporate Affairs

  • Held first in a series of Fireside Chats to provide a forum for sharing topics of interest within the Business Architecture community and provide networking opportunities
  • Redesigned BAA website
  • Participated in three corporation-sponsored events presenting views of Business Architecture in their environments 

Last year the BAA had three corporate events hosted by companies that are leading the way in business architecture.  Teams from different companies were able to interact together and share their mutual experiences on establishing business architecture teams, their day-to-day activities, and their challenges, and how to engage with senior level management within your companies. This year we want to expand that scope to having corporate events that will help those of you from experienced teams connect with others who are going through the same challenges, and some of you that are from newer teams.  With your help we can add more corporate events, entice more companies to participate and host the events, and provide an ever expanding set of real world experiences that can help you excel in being a business architect.

2)  Your 2010 BAA membership will fund a great expansion of the profession through:

  • Launch of a comprehensive marketing campaign to bring awareness of Business Architecture and the value Business Architects can bring to senior corporate management
  • Launch of a certification campaign to encourage greater numbers of professionals to obtain their Certified Business Architect (CBA™)® certificate and meet the demand generated by this marketing campaign
  • Completion of the BAA™ Accreditation Program and materials for evaluating and accrediting university Business Architecture Programs
  • Outreach campaign to encourage universities to establish a Business Architecture program within their MBA programs
  • Continuous improvement in the quality of information available on the BAA website including member only content
  • Expansion of the number of BAA™ Chapters and Interest Groups
  • Webinar and Podcast events   
  • Business Architect as a career:  What it is like including competency models, job descriptions and white papers describing how to be a successful Business Architect.

    A long going concern of the BAA has been how business architects are hired and their career progression.  Last year we mapped out some of the competencies and had fireside chats on the current business architect job market and where we see it heading.  This year we are going to formalize this into actual job descriptions and references that will guide HR departments in their search for business architects and how you, as a business architect, can progress through your career.

These important activities will increase the number of hiring managers who are aware of the work you do and the value you bring. These activities will increase the number of Business Architecture jobs available. And, instead of spending your interview time explaining what a Business Architect is and why they need one, you will instead be demonstrating why you are the best person for their job. This is the return on your BAA investment. 

3) Beginning March 1, 2010 the following will be available exclusively for members:

  • Competency Model:  Skills and proficiencies required for the profession
  • Engagement Model:  Methodology to successfully approach a client engagement
  • Exclusive Member-to-Member search function
  • A relevant Business Case (including methodologies and tools)
  • Additional white papers as they become available
  • Job Descriptions and Postings
  • Event discounts
  • PowerPoint decks to explain what Business Architecture is and the value a Business Architect brings to your manager, their manager and your organization’s corporate management.

4) Please volunteer

This organization is made up of working professionals just like you.  We are interested in building this profession and together we will all benefit from its expansion. We are all volunteers, giving our time as we can. Each hour you can donate puts us one hour closer to our goal of the Business Architect becoming a standard and respected role within the organization.

In Summary:

  • The benefits of your association with the Business Architects Association continue to increase in value. 
  • The influence of the organization as a governing body in the Business Architecture world continues to increase in strength. 
  • Your career will continue to benefit from the strength and power of the BAA organization. 

An important point of any profession is the interaction with others like you.  Recognizing this, the BAA established its first member chapter this year.  They also launched fireside chats that are more interactive and personnel than the traditional slide decks, podcasts, and webcasts that we are all inundated with. We are going to continue this going forward establishing new chapters have even more fireside chats, and increase the number of opportunities for you to connect with other business architects. 

The BAA has been passionate, from the beginning, on how to educate and develop business architects. Last year tremendous strides were made in moving from a single class in business architecture to a suite of classes that cover how to do business architecture in even greater detail.  Today this is limited to the MBA and Professional training within DePaul University.  In the next year we will be making this available on-line and at other universities.  These courses will be available to business architects like you anywhere in the world. 

The CBA Certified Business Architect designation has been a part of BAA from its earliest days.  We continue to get more and more business architects with the CBA designation.  In the coming year we plan to increase the awareness of the CBA in the business world as the de facto designation for business architects. 

To renew today please follow the link:

Business Architects Association
http://www.businessarchitects.org

To renew, please login using your email address and password, then click on View Profile in the upper right corner of the screen.  Click on 'Change Membership Level' to renew your membership.

Thank you for being a valuable addition to the BAA membership.