Business Architects Association Institute™
The Business Architects Association Institute™ (“BAA Institute™”) is the first nonprofit research and publishing organization dedicated to the continuous advancement of the Business Architect profession.
See below:
- Functions
- Peer Review Council
- Curriculum Committee & Suggested Syllabi
- Management
- Conflict of Interest
- Legal Entity
- Authors Program
- Publishing Workflow
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"The BAA Institute™ is a welcoming home for tenacious researchers and serious authors dedicated to advancing the Business Architects' profession." |
Functions
The BAA Institute™ collects, catalogs and publishes the content that makes up the Business Architect’s Body of Knowledge, and helps the profession to achieve a common definition of what a Business Architect is and what a Business Architect does.
Engage
The BAA Institute™ will engage researchers, authors and thought leaders in the Business Architecture space in an ongoing dialogue about the nature, role and applied methodologies of the profession.
Collect
The BAA Institute™ will collect any and all knowledge from within and exterior to the profession that may help move the discussion forward.
Validate
The BAA Institute™ will validate the information it receives against other collected knowledge and categorize it according to the following progressive conditions:
Categories
1. Does it have a relationship to the work of the Business Architect?
2. Is it coherent and universally applicable to all organizations and all situations?
· Always correct - e.g., large and small, any nation, local and global, any country, startup and established, for profit, nonprofit and governmental, any level in the organization
3. Is it consistent with other accepted Business Architecture concepts and the practice of Business Architecture in general?
· Concepts that fail this rule will cause it, and the concept(s) it violates, to be labeled as ”challenged,” and automatically initiate a re-review process, the result of which will be the adjustment or discarding of one or both.
4. Does it move the discussion forward?
· Newer concepts that advance the knowledge of the day.
5. Is it considered settled knowledge?
· Concepts that have stood the test of time and have become the foundation blocks of the profession of Business Architects.
Collected knowledge will be Labeled as:
LABELS
· Awaiting Review
· Under Review
· Challenged
· Review Completed
Retain
The BAA Institute™ will maintain an archival repository of copies of reviewed content in Categories 3+ above, attributing it with appropriate bibliographical information, a 1-2 sentence synopsis, keyword tags and either the “Review Completed” or “Challenged” Label.
Publish
Retained knowledge will be made available according to the BAA Institute™’s permissions policy, which has been designed to disseminate the information to the broadest possible audience while protecting the intellectual property rights of its authors and allowing them the opportunity to share in any revenues received.
Published items will be organized by subject, and ordered by: 1) those that best state the concept, 2) those that augment the understanding and 3) those that simply restate the previous.
Publications
1. BAA Institute™ Glossary of Business Architecture Terms and Concepts.
2. BAA Institute™ Endorsed Learning Objects (BELO) List: Books, articles, videos, PowerPoint slides, simulations, podcasts, etc. that have received a Category 3 or above rating. The List contains hyperlinks to websites where these materials can be obtained.
3. BAA Institute™ Business Architecture Series™ (BBAS): A published series of selected BELOs that represent foundation concepts of the Business Architecture profession.
4. BAA Institute™ Endorsed Tools & Standards (BETS) List : Products that Business Architects have found useful, offered by authors/vendors they have found to be reputable.
5. CBA Updates™: Self-testing BELOs that teach additions and changes to the Business Architects’ Body of Knowledge within previous particular year. CBA Updates™ are the basis of the continuing education program of the BAA™.
6. BAA Institute™ Store: E-commerce website from which BELOs, BBASs, BETSs and CBA Updates™ can be obtained. Authors/vendors have given their prior consent to have their materials offered for purchase from this site and will share in revenues received.
7. BAA Institute™ Suggested Syllabi: Aids for instructors launching new Business Architecture courses, which are prepared by the BAA Institute™ Curriculum Committee.
Publishing Workflow Diagram
Promote
The BAA Institute™ will sponsor conferences to which scholarly papers are submitted, peer-reviewed by recognized academic researchers, presented to attendees and published in a journal of proceedings.
Peer Review Council
The BAA Institute™ Peer Review Council examines submittals, categorizes them and determines for which publishing options they are appropriate – BAA Institute™ Glossary of Business Architecture Terms and Concepts, BAA Institute™ Endorsed Learning Objects List, BAA Institute™ Endorsed Tools & Standards List, BAA Institute Business Architecture Series™. The Council is an independent body comprised of a diverse balance of business and academics professionals.
Curriculum Committee
The BAA Institute™ Curriculum Committee assembles and maintains the Suggested Syllabi for the CBA™ Certificate courses, and the content for the Business Architecture Certification Examination (BACE)™ and the CBA Updates™ continuing education courses. The content is drawn from the BAA Institute™ Endorsed Learning Objects List. This committee is composed of CBAI™ instructors, and active participation on this committee is the basis of their continuing education requirement.
Management
The BAA Institute™ will be led by an Executive Director appointed for a two-year term by the Board of Directors of the Business Architects Association®. The Executive Director shall sit on the Business Architects Association® Board of Directors. The Executive Director will oversee a budget and staff—paid or unpaid, who will be responsible for the work of the BAA Institute™.
Conflict of Interest
Works created by persons associated with the BAA Institute™ cannot participate in the review of their own material. Reviewers must recuse themselves from participation if they feel that will be unduly influenced by their relationship with the author.
Legal Entity
The BAA Institute™ is not an independent legal entity, but a part of the Business Architects Association®.
Authors Program
The BAA Institute™’s Authors Program provides a structured conduit through which authors, or the person/entity owning publishing rights to the author’s works, (“Authors”) interact with the BAA™. All submitted works will go through a review by the Peer Review Council. The Council will categorize the works, and recommend some for endorsement and some of those for inclusion in the Business Architecture Series™. Additionally, it will recommend new terms for inclusion in the BAA Institute™ Glossary.
Publication of the Full Text of Endorsed Works
The BAA Institute™ will request the Author’s approval to publish the full text of endorsed works through the BAA Institute™’s e-commerce website on a nonexclusive basis. Authors will execute a licensing agreement prior to publication that includes the following components:
Recognition
The BAA Institute™ will correctly recognize Authors in all materials it produces, and make immediate corrections when errors are brought to its attention.
Revenue
The BAA Institute™’s standard agreement will provide Authors with a simple revenue sharing split of the gross sale. Distribution payments will be made to Authors on a quarterly basis. Payments will be made on sales that have occurred at least 31 days prior in order to ensure all returns and chargebacks have been received and processed.
Electronic Distribution
For works distributed by digital downloaded or access online, the BAA Institute™ will confer with the Authors to determine which class of buyer will have access to the works for what duration of time and any other similar parameters. The range of choices will depend on the technical capabilities available from time to time.
Acceptable Usage by Consumers
Under the terms of the End User Licensing Agreement (“EULA”):
1. In order to promote the adoption of published works into course syllabi, Instructors may download and copy all works for personal evaluation purposes at no cost, and pass copies along to other instructors for personal evaluation purposes.
2. Students and others may download works for personal use at the price stipulated. Copies can be made for personal use and, in order to encourage broad dissemination, shared with others within their company, but not with other students. Download access will be limited to a specified duration of time.
3. No one may resell downloaded works, or any portion thereof.
Acceptable Usage in Marketing Materials
The BAA Institute™ markets its published materials, often describing works by name, author, etc., and sometimes providing short attributed excerpts for the purpose of stimulating purchase by 3rd parties. The Author approves this use of their works.
Indemnification
Authors will warrant to the BAA Institute™ that the Author owns the rights to the submittals applicable to the usage outlined herein and they are not plagiarized from other sources, do not contain the uncredited intellectual property of others, do not contain images or illustrations for which the author does not have a release that authorizes unconditional publication by the BAA Institute™, do not contain licensed images featuring models or products for which the Author does not have a release that authorizes unconditional publication by the BAA Institute™, and are not subject to exposure to third-party claims for uncompensated services rendered. Authors will indemnify the BAA™ and the BAA Institute™ and hold them harmless against any such claims.
Other Provisions
1. The rights provided by the license are not assignable and limited to those discussed therein.
2. Either party may terminate the agreement with 30 days written notice.
3. Notice is given is sent to the address included in the licensing agreement. If any of the provisions are found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it will not change the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions.
4. No delay in exercising rights will constitute a waiver of those rights. The licensing agreement constitutes the entirety of the agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior agreements.
5. The agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, U.S.A. and adjudicated in a court of proper authority in Cook County.
Copyright Protection
The BAA Institute™ encourages Authors to publish their copyrighted works as soon as possible in order to secure first-use position, and register them with the U.S. Copyright Office to qualify for additional protections under U.S. law.
Copyright Infringements by Outside Parties
The BAA Institute™ will not pursue infringements of Authors’ rights by 3rd parties; it is not its competency and it simply does not have the resources necessary to do so.
For more information, please contact BAA Institute™ Executive Director:
Jack Hilty
jhilty@sentientpoint.com