Embedding EAM into strategic planning
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What is a key challenge in EAM
Aligning enterprise architecture management (EAM) with the existing management practices guiding a company’s strategic and organisational development.
What is key success factor to realise EA's defined objectives and principles?
EAM should not be a stand-alone activity and should be linked to existing strategy processes.
How do EAM practices enhance strategy formulation, planning and evaluation?
- the documented as-is architecture provides input for discussing different stakeholders’ viewpoints and analysing the organisation’s existing capabilities
- EAM techniques assist managers with explicating and refining strategic directions in the form of target architectures.
- the documented as-is and target architectures help managers to identify migration plans and resolve interdependencies, which are often overseen without EAM
EAM practices thus ensure that, given the firm’s capabilities and
limitations, the chosen strategies are feasible
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What are the 2 important roles in the strategy cycle?
1. It supports planning, formulating and coordinating
strategic initiatives by means of EA documentation and EAM
methods
2. EAM initiates dedicated architecture initiatives
that improve the architecture’s overall quality and prepare it to support existing and future business requirements
What are the management implications; How can the benefits of EAM be gained?
With the following success factors:
- EAM practises complement and enhance existing management practices, rather than replacing them;
- EA documentation provides a collaborative view that can be shared by managers, architects and employees;
- Strategic initiatives are the means to migrate towards the target architecture;
- Top management must be committed.
How is EAM integrated in the Strategic Planning Cycle?
1. Analysing the situation
2. Elaborating on strategic options
- 2a. Accessing strategic business and IT options
- 2b. Formulation of strategic architecture initiatives
During Strategy planning:
3. Developing an architecture vision
4. Roadmapping and planning migration
During Strategy implementation:
5. Assessing, prioritising and realisation the project portfolio
During Strategy evaluation:
6. Evaluating the architecture evolution
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