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Business Architecture

Making complexity visible.

Selected writing on business architecture, transformation, structured thinking and the visual tools that help organisations move from strategy to action.

2 essays · 1 magazine adaptation

Crowds crossing Shibuya's intersecting pedestrian crossings beneath illuminated buildings at night.

Featured · Published in BA Digest

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The Secret Power of Diagrams

How diagrams and benefits mapping make complex strategies easier to understand, connect individual efforts to shared goals, and create the conditions for meaningful discussion.

An edited version focusing on benefits mapping was subsequently published in BA Digest Q3 2025.

Aylwin Wan

Original essay

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Edited magazine version

BA Digest · Q3 2025 · pp. 47-50

The Secret Power of Diagrams: Using Benefits Mapping for Strategic Alignment

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Clarity, Alignment and Collaboration

Aylwin Wan

What do business architects bring to transformation? Familiar examples reveal how they help people understand the whole, move towards shared goals, and work better together.

Vaulted stone ceilings, tall columns and stained-glass windows inside Notre Dame in Paris.

This collection will continue to grow alongside my practice and thinking in business architecture and transformation.

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