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E110 Part 1 - STRATEGY TO REALITY: A Look Into Whynde Kuehn’s Insights On Business Architecture

Episode Summary

In this episode, Randy welcomes Whynde Kuehn, author of the book Strategy to Reality: Making the Impossible Possible for Business Architects, Change Makers and Strategy Execution Leaders. Whynde shares her humble beginnings and how she got into sales. Whynde’s conversation with Randy centers on the importance of Vision and Mission statements, their parallels with strategies, the importance of business architecture in designing strategies, and many more. Learn more about Whynde in this latest episode of Tech Sales Insights. INSIGHTS OF THE DAY WHYNDE: ALIGNMENT OF STRATEGY AND CAPABILITIES THROUGH BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE “The architecture sort of the golden thread, right, allows us to keep this continual balance and alignment between strategy, the capabilities we're investing in, and the initiatives and solutions, especially if we need to replan what we're doing very quickly.” WHYNDE: INSIGHT ON VISION, MISSION, AND STRATEGIES “Those are sort of the blocks that we anchor back to. And they're, they're also the things that nobody kind of thinks about on a day-to-day basis unless you bring it up, where things start to change, which is where I focus is the strategies, the goals, the objectives, the metrics, the courses of actions, the where we play, how we win, and that's where we spend most of our time because that's where the change is happening, and that's where we need to be really clear.” Find out more about Whynde in the links below: Whynde Kuehn | S2e Transformation | Book This episode of Tech Sales Insights is brought to you by: Sales Community | OpenSymmetry

Episode Notes

In this episode, Randy welcomes Whynde Kuehn, author of the book Strategy to Reality: Making the Impossible Possible for Business Architects, Change Makers and Strategy Execution Leaders. Whynde shares her humble beginnings and how she got into sales. Whynde’s conversation with Randy centers on the importance of Vision and Mission statements, their parallels with strategies, the importance of business architecture in designing strategies, and many more. Learn more about Whynde in this latest episode of Tech Sales Insights.

 

INSIGHTS OF THE DAY

WHYNDE: ALIGNMENT OF STRATEGY AND CAPABILITIES THROUGH BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE

“The architecture sort of the golden thread, right, allows us to keep this continual balance and alignment between strategy, the capabilities we're investing in, and the initiatives and solutions, especially if we need to replan what we're doing very quickly.”

WHYNDE: INSIGHT ON VISION, MISSION, AND STRATEGIES

“Those are sort of the blocks that we anchor back to. And they're, they're also the things that nobody kind of thinks about on a day-to-day basis unless you bring it up, where things start to change, which is where I focus is the strategies, the goals, the objectives, the metrics, the courses of actions, the where we play, how we win, and that's where we spend most of our time because that's where the change is happening, and that's where we need to be really clear.”

 

Find out more about Whynde in the links below:

 

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