The authors contend that most contemporary logic textbooks fail the average student because they emphasize the evaluation of arguments over their clarification, assuming that the student already understands what motivations underlie logic. This text, first published in 1980 by Macmillan, provides the student with an understanding of what an argument is, how to spot one, and to help them eventually be able to clarify and evaluate it using informal reasoning.

The Nature of Argument

Politics & Social Sciences

Ulrich, William

Lambert, Karel

Philosophy

University Press of America

Organizations have grown so complex in recent years that it is difficult to visualize or understand how all of the parts fit together.At the same time, executives want to reshape and transform their organizations to be more competitive and more customer centric.This requires that executives across business units view issues and solutions from a shared, enterprise-wide perspective.Business Architecture maps and documents the essence of the enterprise.Visualizing a business through architectural disciplines is not entirely new. Creating a business-friendly framework that allows business professionals to visualize and transform organizations, however, is a groundbreaking achievement!The most important aspect of business architecture is enabling business executives, managers and professionals to take ownership and drive enterprise transformation, a role that has oftentimes been delegated by default to IT. Historically, the term "enterprise architecture" has a tendency to turn off business professionals because they immediately assume that the concept is an IT focused creation. This is not an indictment of IT but rather a call to action for business executives to take ownership of business architecture and related business transformation strategies. The decisions that are made today can make or break organizations going forward into a complex, uncertain future.Make no mistake. This is not a book about IT, but a book for business professionals who want to address difficult challenges across enterprises that have become bewildering monoliths of complexity. This book puts the business back in the driver's seat when it comes to setting strategy, crystallizing a vision and turning that vision into bottom line business value.

Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation

McWhorter, Neal

Business & Money

Meghan-Kiffer Press

Widely held as the most important Business Architecture book to date, the authors illustrate the discipline's transformation from IT Enterprise Architecture to a business imperative necessary for rapid response to change. Business and Dynamic Change The Arrival of Business Architecture This book represents the collaborative work of the industry's top experts, and thought leaders. As explained in the Foreword by best-selling author Keith Swenson, Chair of the Business Architecture Working Group, "The chapters in this book are from visionaries who see the need for business leaders to define their organizations to be agile and robust in the face of external changes."
Swenson adds,"The people making the architecture cannot know the pressures that will be faced. Instead, it must support leaders and executives within the organization to make consistently good decisions on how to adapt their practices. The architecture is not a plan that anticipates all the decisions, instead it embodies a set of core guiding principles that enable decision making."Part One – The Big Picture of Architecture<ul>
<li> Business Architecture – Information Necessity </li> <li> Business Architecture: Setting the Record Straight </li> <li> Making Sense of the Architecture Jungle </li> <li> Converting Decision to Action </li> <li> Design and Reengineering of Business: An Engineering Approach </li> <li> Building a Foundation for Business Architecture </li> <li> How Business Architecture Enables Agility in a Dynamic Market </li>
</ul>Part Two – Where the Rubber Meets the Road<ul>
<li> Linking Architectures for Business Results </li> <li> Database Reverse Engineering for Business Due Diligence </li> <li> Heat-mapped Value Streams as the Translation from Strategy to Action </li> <li> Applying Architecture to Business Transformation and Decision-making: Case Aalto University </li> <li> Business Architecture for Process-Oriented Learning in Public Administration </li> <li> Leveraging Architecture Federation to Increase the Value and Use of Architecture </li> <li> BA Practical Data Governance </li>
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Understand that the term "business" used this way is not limited to for-profit enterprises but includes all forms of organizations that have a strategic need to accomplish goals. Pragmatically speaking, business architecture is the conceptual understanding that people have on why particular choices were made in forming the organization in a particular way.
This book will help you understand your options and how to relate them to your own organization.

Business and Dynamic Change: The Arrival of Business Architecture

Kowalkowski, Frank F

Laware, Gil

Poulin, Dr Michael

Connor, Michael S

Management & Leadership

Future Strategies, Incorporated

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