Recommended Key Initiative Plan
These 9 initiatives have been found to elicit the most significant measurable impact for professionals in this role.
- 1. Assess Enterprise Architecture Maturity
- 2. Design an Enterprise Architecture Strategy
- 3. Define an Enterprise Architecture Operating Model
- 4. Establish a Solid Business Architecture
- 5. Modernize Data Architecture
- 6. Enhance Your Application Architecture
- 7. Align Infrastructure Architecture to Business Value
- 8. Embed Security Architecture Into All Things IT
- 9. Select an Enterprise Architecture Tool
Data & Business Intelligence
Featured Blueprints

June 28, 2021
The amount of data within organizations is growing at an exponential rate, creating a need for organizations to adopt a formal approach to governin...

November 13, 2020
BI drives a new reality. Uber is the world’s largest taxi company and they own no vehicles; Alibaba is the world’s most valuable retailer and they ...

November 02, 2020
Data management has distinct phasing. Fitting all phases inside a single data warehouse environment creates an unmanageable monster. Instead, think...

October 07, 2020
Data teams struggle in many areas including a quick and iterative approach for converting an analytics/algorithm into a production-ready reusable a...

September 29, 2020
For AI to be able to answer questions or discover new relationships, it needs an underlining architecture that not only describes the data AI will ...

July 07, 2020
Put a strategy in place to ensure data is available, accessible, well integrated, secured, of acceptable quality, and suitably visualized to fuel o...

March 22, 2019
Data is one of the most important assets in a modern organization. Within an organization’s data are contained the customers, the products, and the...

July 11, 2017
The goal of data architecture is the standardization of data for the benefit of the organization. Follow this blueprint to create a tactical plan f...
Resources
Strategy & Operating Model
Featured Blueprints

February 01, 2022
There has been an increased emphasis on short-term decision making and agility by organizations. As a result, organizations now need a strategic pl...

August 19, 2021
Use this blueprint to define operating model design principles, design your EA operating structure, and implement your EA operating model.

December 08, 2020
Develop processes, procedures, and policies to effectively manage cloud costs.

November 05, 2020
Develop processes, procedures, and policies to effectively manage cloud costs.

October 23, 2020
Traditional enterprise architecture management (EAM) addresses only the IT function – 10% of an organization and not the other 90%. This research ...

May 14, 2020
When you exit from COVID-19, survival is good, low-disruption continuity is better, and emerging as a winner is best. Act now to guide that journey.

March 06, 2020
Use this blueprint to document people, process, and technology aspects of cloud strategy at your organization. This project helps align IT and the ...

January 31, 2020
This blueprint will help you build a tailored application rationalization framework that meets your specific goals and adjusts to your limitations....