“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value” – ALBERT EINSTEIN Enterprise architecture is not well understood among business executives and where it is understood not always applied correctly to deliver expected results. Solution: Value driven enterprise architecture Value Driven Enterprise architecture is structured, value driven approach…

“The value of EA is not in simply ‘doing EA’, but rather in how it can help evolve the business and enable senior executives to respond to business threats and opportunities” – BRIAN BURKE, RESEARCH VICE PRESIDENT AT GARTNER Enterprise architecture teams often fail to claim its value delivered. Some of these units are simply “product…

“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change” -BILL CLINTON Your company has grown substantially over the last decades. Due to several mergers and acquisitions, the application portfolio of your enterprise has grown significantly. In the last years, the competition in the industry has increased, leading to increased…

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”– ALAN PERLIS, COMPUTER SCIENTIST High-level strategic goal and priority in your company is to reduce the complexity in both business and in IT. To achieve this goal business units should start measuring how much any given project corresponds to the increase or…

“Trust is built with consistency.” – LINCOLN CHAFEE Your company is planning big enterprise level transformations in both business and IT. To prepare for these initiatives assigned teams have started to look at current enterprise model to understand simplified view of overall company’s environment.However detailed analysis of the current business and IT estate highlighted that there…

“Conquering the complexity in products and services can generate larger contributions to profits and growth than nearly any other business strategy” -MICHAEL L. GEORGE and STEPHEN A. WILSON You are serving in a multinational company that operates production facilities in 24 countries and sells its products in over 100 countries. It has few sectors each having…

“It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top”-HENRY WARD BEECHER Your company is advised to build an automation of company’s core capabilities by investing into IT infrastructure and digitized business processes. One of key disciplines to build foundation for automation is to decide on…

„Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders“  -DILIP SHANGHVI Your company has received approval to acquire a product portfolio of a smaller company that will extend its market share and enable it to extend product offering. Acquired product systems range diverse technical…

„Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger“  -TOM FLYNN  You are serving as the Chief Architect for a major bank, leading a group of domain architects as well as working with the corporate project management office, strategic planners, and operations management planners. Your company has been in business for over…

„In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.“  – DALAI LAMA Reacting to rapidly growing business and several mergers and acquisitions, your company started business process consolidation and new IT system acquisition process. The complexity of the project was too ambitious in terms of competence and experience both for…

„You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data“ – DANIEL KEYS MORAN The existing IT systems in your company are suffering from data integrity issues. The data is often neither accurate nor consistent which leads to not correct information presented to customers, wrong statistics and not reliable reports.  From the…

“They don’t really know what agile is. All they know is the word.” – JOHANNA ROTHMAN You are working in multinational banking and finance company, which is implementing Agile IT development practices on a massive scale, thus having high expectations on improved efficiency and customer value. The sceptics would say, but how to deal with…