Across all industry sectors, organisations continue to invest heavily in strategy formulation, transformation programmes, and digital initiatives. However, evidence consistently indicates a persistent gap between strategic ambition and realised outcomes. This gap is frequently characterised by fragmented initiatives, weak traceability from strategy to delivery, limited benefits realisation, and unclear accountability for execution.

Business architecture has emerged as a discipline intended to address these challenges by providing a coherent structure linking strategic objectives to capabilities, value streams, operating models, governance mechanisms, and execution roadmaps. By establishing an explicit line of sight from intent to action, business architecture enables prioritisation, coordination, and measurable value delivery.

This edited volume explores business architecture as an outcome-oriented execution discipline. It seeks contributions that examine conceptual foundations, empirical evidence, methodological approaches, and applied practice, with a clear focus on how business architecture improves execution quality and organisational performance. Chapters may address public or private sector contexts, regulated environments, and organisations at varying levels of architectural maturity.

Sub-Themes (indicative but not limited to):
We welcome submissions covered the following topics, but remain open to other suggestions and ideas related to the core concept. 

1. Business architecture as a mechanism for strategy execution
2. Outcomes-based management and benefits realisation
3. Capability-based planning and strategic coherence
4. Value streams, customer journeys, and service architectures
5. Target operating models and enterprise alignment
6. Portfolio governance, prioritisation, and investment decisioning
7. Linking strategy, OKRs, KPIs, and performance management
8. Business architecture methods, artefacts, and modelling approaches
9. Architecture-enabled transformation programmes and case studies
10. Digital transformation and platform operating models
11. Data, information, and decision architecture as execution enablers
12. Organisational design, accountability, and governance mechanisms
13. Business architecture in mergers, acquisitions, and separations
14. Risk, controls, and compliance by design in regulated contexts
15. Sector perspectives, including financial services, public sector, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail
16. Business architecture capability building and maturity models
17. Measuring architectural value, outcomes, and performance impact
18. AI, automation, and the future of business architecture

• Chapters must be original, scholarly, unpublished, and free from plagiarism.

• Topics are not confined to the sub-themes listed, however contributions must clearly align with the book title and concept.

• Authors should submit:

   o ​Abstract: 150–250 words

   o Short bio-note: 75–100 words

• Submissions must include the chapter title, author name(s), designation, affiliation, country, and email address.

• Abstracts should clearly articulate the focus of the chapter, the approach adopted (conceptual, empirical, methodological, or practice-based), and the intended contribution.

• 4,000–7,000 words, inclusive of references.
• Chapters should be written in clear academic English.
• Referencing style will follow APA 7 style.
• Full formatting and style guidelines will be provided by Business Insights Press following abstract acceptance.

Review Process

• No publication or processing fees are charged.

• Each contributor will receive:

​o One complimentary author copy of the published volume

​o One copy for deposit with the contributor’s academic library

• Contributors will participate in a royalty-sharing arrangement, with 20% of net royalties allocated to contributors (to be shared proportionally)..