Aligning business strategy to IT decision-making
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture
The importance of Enterprise Architecture
Growing interdependencies between the business and IT are driving a renewed interest in Enterprise Architecture. Yet without the right approach, organizations pursuing digital transformation risk failure. Especially as Enterprise Architecture has a tendency to become too theoretical to drive meaningful outcomes or too focused on technology to align with business planning.
Our practical approach to Enterprise Architecture avoids these pitfalls by balancing actionable projects with a dynamic, long-term strategy.
Benefits and value
- Accelerate decision-making and delivery of business outcomes
- Organize and optimize infrastructure to align with business goals
- Modernize and grow your IT department
- Foster collaboration and alignment between business and IT leadership to generate tech-enabled innovations and operating models
Think differently
Our experts take a practical approach to building an Enterprise Architecture function that drives positive business results. Learn to position Enterprise Architecture in a way that influences key strategy, planning and delivery decisions, becoming the connective tissue between IT and the business.
Using our Enterprise Architecture Maturity Curve framework, we work to understand your current state capabilities to help you chart a path toward a fully-integrated Enterprise Architecture function.
Expand to explore different stages of maturity
- No Enterprise Architecture team or artifacts
- Disparate solutioning
- Shadow IT
- IT disjointed reactive to business
- Enterprise Architecture team in place but not collaborative
- Artifacts are "shelfware"
- Mainly technology reference architectures
- No executive buy-in or ownership
- Technology now has executive ownership
- Exec strategy drives tech decisions
- Tension created by lack of interaction with business
- Artifacts are accessible
- Business-focused insights and drivers
- Light interactions with business stakeholders
- Business has minimal interest using artifacts
- Artifacts written in technologists' language
- Lack of integration into budget cycle
- Both business and tech leaders invested
- As-needed integration with budget cycle
- Minimal messaging to greater organization
- Mature governance processes enforce Enterprise Architecture guidelines
- Artifacts written with more focus on business language
- Enterprise Architecture is fully integrated with business strategy discussions
- Tight link between business and tech strategies
- Proactive messaging and communication
- Governance is business outcome-driven
- Enterprise Architecture tightly linked to budget cycle
- Business units leverage Enterprise Architecture artifacts
- Enterprise Architecture is connective tissue across tech silos
From strategy through delivery
As organizations look to transform the core functionality of IT to thrive in today's digital world, the role of Enterprise Architecture must not remain solely strategy based.
Rather, Enterprise Architecture must become the connective tissue between a company's business and IT organizations, playing a central role in influencing strategy, planning and delivery decisions.
Our experts are ready to help, wherever your organization is in the journey to a mature Enterprise Architecture.
Enterprise Architecture assessments
Whether your organization currently has an Enterprise Architecture function or not, our experts can help you kickstart or mature your capabilities by building the foundational components of Enterprise Architecture while driving quick wins for key business and technology initiatives.
Enterprise Architecture Kickstarter Workshop
Scale-out engagements
Once you establish the foundation of your Enterprise Architecture plan, we'll help you scale the downstream delivery of technology projects and programs by building artifacts and implementing roadmaps across the breadth of your technology and business domains.
Roadmaps Are Key to a Practical Enterprise Architecture
Operational readiness engagements
During operational readiness engagements, our experts deep dive into the current state of your business or technology environment and identify gaps compared to your desired future state. We also recommend which tools and resources to invest in to achieve that defined future state.
Operational Readiness Assessment
Our work
Enterprise Architecture Strategy Energizes, Aligns Hospital System
Breaking Down the Ivory Tower: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture
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