Recommended Key Initiative Plan

These 9 initiatives have been found to elicit the most significant measurable impact for professionals in this role.

Assess Enterprise Architecture Maturity

Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your EA practice to design your path forward.

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Activities

  • Assess your current EA maturity
  • Identify target state and key areas for improvement
  • Build a customized capability improvement roadmap

Benefits

  • Leverage industry-proven EA operational best practices
  • Develop a practical, tactical roadmap to improve the capability of EA

Design an Enterprise Architecture Strategy

Reduce the time to business value by creating an effective EA strategy.

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Activities

  • Identify business and technology drivers
  • Design the value proposition of EA
  • Define EA fundamental vision, mission, goals & objectives, and principles
  • Identify and define EA services

Benefits

  • Enhanced clarity into how EA will support and enable organizational goals & objectives
  • Clear articulation of the depth and breadth of EA services

Define an Enterprise Architecture Operating Model

Realize the benefits of EA by balancing the need for controls with the desire for business engagement.

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Activities

  • Develop an accurate forecasting methodology
  • Establish baseline metrics
  • Differentiate between discretionary and non-discretionary costs
  • Develop service-based costing

Benefits

  • Increase EA capability to provide consistent services on demand
  • Provide a balanced view of EA compliance requirements

Establish a Solid Business Architecture

Use business architecture to gain a clear understanding of your business strategy and better align IT with the business.

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Activities

  • Engage stakeholders and identify the opportunity for BA work
  • Model the business in the form of architectural blueprints
  • Drive business architecture forward to promote real value to the organization

Benefits

  • Deliver a common understanding of the business and its parts
  • Facilitate a coherent and consistent implementation of strategy across all the business-enablement layers

Modernize Data Architecture

56% of financial firms put siloed, legacy data architecture as one of their largest data challenges. Step into the future while learning from the past with our approach to data architecture.

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Activities

  • Define your current data architecture
  • Model the impacts of the current data landscape on your legacy platforms
  • Build a roadmap to take from traditional to modern data architecture

Benefits

  • Define and clearly communicate a single, consistent, and authoritative view of an organization's data
  • Formulate a roadmap for incremental delivery of data initiatives

Enhance Your Application Architecture

Organizations with an effective EA program have seen a 10% decrease in IT integration costs.

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Activities

  • Assess your current application landscape and identify optimization opportunities
  • Define application architecture principles and governance assessment checklists
  • Define application reference architecture

Benefits

  • Reduce application complexity and identify optimization opportunities
  • Create a business-value-aligned application roadmap

Align Infrastructure Architecture to Business Value

A business-driven approach to infrastructure planning will help positively improve the business value of IT.

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Activities

  • Assess your organizational infrastructure needs
  • Align infrastructure architecture principles to business capabilities
  • Define infrastructure reference architecture

Benefits

  • Create an infrastructure modernization roadmap
  • Align infrastructure investments with stakeholder expectations

Embed Security Architecture Into All Things IT

>93% of companies are still in reactive mode when handling security issues. An architecture-based approach will future-proof your organization.

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Activities

  • Assess your organizational security needs
  • Define security architecture principles across all EA domains
  • Define security reference architecture

Benefits

  • Align security architecture with business objectives
  • Leverage industry best practices and trends to future-proof your business

Select an Enterprise Architecture Tool

Not all EA tools are made the same. Ensure the tools you choose are better suited to your needs than what you currently have.

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Activities

  • Define EA tool selection criteria
  • Understand what each EA vendor offers and identify a tool that will best suit your organization

Benefits

  • Align tool selection to the EA program maturity level and requirements
  • Create a practical implementation plan for deploying your EA tool
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  • 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

Establish Data Governance

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

Build a Reporting and Analytics Strategy

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 ...

Build a Data Pipeline for Reporting and Analytics

November 02, 2020

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

Sprint Toward Data-Driven Culture Using DataOps

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...

Create an Architecture for AI

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 ...

Build a Robust and Comprehensive Data Strategy

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...

Build a Data Integration Strategy

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...

Build a Data Architecture Roadmap

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...

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Strategy & Operating Model

Featured Blueprints

Develop an Enterprise Architecture Strategy

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...

Agile Enterprise Architecture Operating Model

August 19, 2021

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

Take Control of Cloud Costs on Microsoft Azure

December 08, 2020

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

Take Control of Cloud Costs on AWS

November 05, 2020

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

Create Stakeholder-Centric Architecture Governance

October 23, 2020

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

Excel Through COVID-19 With a Focused Business Architecture

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.

Document Your Cloud Strategy

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 ...

Build an Application Rationalization Framework

January 31, 2020

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

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