Domain 02 of four

Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation

Helping organisations understand how their business capabilities, processes, information, applications and technology fit together, and how they must evolve.

Start with the Enterprise Architecture and Digital Readiness Preliminary Assessment

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Why it matters

The problem this addresses

Systems arrive one decision at a time, each sensible on the day. Some years later the same information is held in four places, two systems do substantially the same job, and one integration nobody documented is holding up a process the organisation depends on.

Without a current-state view, every technology decision is made without knowing what it touches. That is what makes change expensive and unpredictable.

Scope

The assessment may examine

Alignment between strategy and technology investment
Business capabilities and critical processes
Application duplication and lifecycle risks
Data ownership, integration and information flows
Technology dependencies and technical debt
Architecture roles and decision-making structures
Current digital transformation initiatives
Artificial Intelligence and automation readiness

Key standards: Framework alignment is a statement of method, not a certification claim.
TOGAF: Architecture development, building blocks and the architecture repository.
ArchiMate: Modelling notation, for diagrams that non-specialists can read.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010: Architecture description.
COBIT 2019: For the governance that keeps a road map alive after it is written.

Assessment

Included in the Assessment

High-level current-state architecture view
Key capability, process and technology gaps
Priority application and technology risks
Transformation readiness summary
Executive findings presentation
Prioritised architecture and transformation roadmap

Price: Quoted on request. Each Preliminary Assessment is a paid, fixed-scope advisory engagement, confirmed before commencement based on the agreed scope, the number of stakeholders and the depth of evidence required.
Not an audit: Preliminary Assessments are advisory reviews. They are not certification audits, penetration tests, statutory audits, or formal legal and regulatory compliance opinions.

Implementation

Available as an Implementation Engagement

An assessment that ends at a report has done half the job. Building what it recommends is a separate engagement, scoped and quoted against what you need, and never bundled into the assessment.

Further advisory services

Business capability and process mapping
Current-state and future-state architecture
Application and technology portfolio assessments
Application rationalisation
Digital transformation strategies and roadmaps
Architecture governance frameworks
Architecture principles and standards
Technology lifecycle assessments
Data and information architecture governance
Solution architecture reviews
Artificial Intelligence and digital-readiness planning

How it is priced: Quoted on request. Fixed scope and fixed fee, agreed in writing before work begins. We do not work on an open-ended basis.
Independence: Assessment and implementation are separately scoped engagements, quoted and agreed in writing before either begins. Keeping them separate is deliberate. It is what allows the assessment to stay independent, and it means you are never presented with findings that happen to recommend more of our own work. Where we have implemented something, any later re-assessment of that work says so plainly.

Intended outcomes

A clearer understanding of the organisational environment
Improved alignment between business priorities and technology
Reduced duplication, fragmentation and complexity
Better-informed transformation and procurement decisions
Defined transition roadmaps
Stronger governance over architecture and technology change

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