- Organizations need to innovate rapidly to respond to the changing forces in their industry, but their IT initiatives often fail to deliver meaningful outcomes.
- Planners face challenges in understanding the relationships between the important customer-focused innovations they’re trying to introduce and the resources (capabilities) that make them possible, including applications, human resources, information, and processes. For example, are we risking the success of a new service offering by underpinning it with a legacy or manual solution?
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Successful execution of business strategy requires planning that:
- Accurately reflects organizational capabilities.
- Is traceable so all levels can understand how decisions are made.
- Makes efficient use of organizational resources.
To accomplish this, the business architect must engage stakeholders, model the business, and drive planning with business architecture.
- Business architecture is often regarded as an IT function when its role and tools should be fixtures within the business planning and innovation practice.
- Any size of organization – from start-ups to global enterprises -- can benefit from using a common language and modeling rigor to identify the opportunities that will produce the greatest impact and value.
- You don’t need sophisticated modeling software to build an effective business architecture knowledgebase. In fact, the best format for engaging business stakeholders is intuitive visuals using business language.
Impact and Result
- Execute more quickly on innovation and transformation initiatives.
- More effectively target investments in resources and IT according to what goals and requirements are most important.
- Identify problematic areas (e.g. legacy applications, manual processes) that hinder the business strategy and create inefficiencies in our information technology operation.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.3/10
Overall Impact
$162,642
Average $ Saved
26
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Consumers Energy
Workshop
8/10
$68,500
20
Great engagement from Howard during the delivery of the workshop. The team learned some valuable practices and insight from the Business Architectu... Read More
New Zealand Treasury
Guided Implementation
10/10
$13,699
10
Cameron was very knowledgeable on the topic and provided some valuable insights and suggestions on how to right-size for our organization.
DKV Euro Service GmbH + Co. KG
Guided Implementation
9/10
$36,999
5
Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services
Workshop
10/10
$34,250
20
Having everyone in a room for 4 days, the exchange of ideas and issues were great. This built the foundation to carry the project forward.
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Guided Implementation
10/10
$5,000
5
NZ Department of Corrections
Guided Implementation
7/10
$34,250
10
Collateral and analyst session was very interesting and informative, we were looking for an accelerator for general business capabilities and recei... Read More
California Health and Human Services Agency
Guided Implementation
10/10
$28,085
N/A
Best part is having access to speak with a knowledgeable person in the space. Worst part is that I don't have access to her every minute of every day.
NASA
Workshop
10/10
N/A
120
Best parts: great knowledgeable and highly skilled team. High level of engagement by all participants. Flexibility in adjusting agenda items based ... Read More
Centennial College
Guided Implementation
10/10
$10,000
16
Best: Great insight into the discipline and practical blueprints that once can actually use and refine Thanks Claude
USAble Mutual Insurance Co. dba Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Workshop
9/10
$1.23M
N/A
Andy drove the Value stream mapping exercise by establishing capability model for Group line of business for Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. Andy... Read More
Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services - Office of Information Services
Workshop
7/10
N/A
20
Driving alignment amongst my team and giving them tools they need to be successful is a great benefit. Getting that alignment was difficult...given... Read More