In a rapidly evolving business landscape, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is becoming a critical tool for driving organizational success, aligning technology with business strategy, and delivering measurable value. Business Architecture Info specializes in helping organizations like yours establish a Value-Based Enterprise Architecture Practice that isn’t just an operational necessity but a strategic enabler for business growth.

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Our consulting services are tailored to leaders looking to transform their EA functions into value-generating assets. By building a robust EA foundation, defining clear objectives, and delivering real-world results, we enable organizations to gain the competitive advantage they need to thrive. Whether you are starting fresh or refining an existing architecture, we offer the roadmap, methodologies, and expertise to make your EA practice a driver of meaningful, long-term change.

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Why a Value-Based EA Practice?

The traditional EA approach often focuses heavily on technical architecture, leading to siloed processes and limited strategic alignment. A Value-Based EA practice, on the other hand, centers on business outcomes and ensures that every architectural effort ties back to your organization’s core objectives. This approach aligns technology, processes, and resources to prioritize initiatives that directly impact business performance and maximize returns on technology investments.

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Our Approach: A Proven, Practical Methodology

Our Value-Based EA practice is built on a proven, step-by-step methodology to help you establish a robust, results-oriented EA practice within the first 90 days. Here’s a complete 10-step execution guide to perform during these crucial first three months, as shown in Figure 1 below.

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Days 1-30: Assimilation and Understanding

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1. Onboarding and Initial Learning

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Onboarding and initial learning begin with a deep dive into your organization, reviewing existing EA documentation, and identifying key stakeholders. We guide you in pinpointing the critical stakeholders you'll collaborate with, from business and IT executive leadership to business unit heads, IT managers, and essential technical staff. We will also help you understand their expectations, pain points, and challenges, enabling you to adapt your enterprise architecture practice to better align with organizational needs and deliver meaningful results.​

 

2. Building Relationships

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Building relationships with key stakeholders and with your team members early on is essential. We will show you how to build trust and rapport with them. Remember that if you omit to build these relationships early on, the odds that you make a significant positive impact on your organization are very low.

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3. Current State Assessment

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Within the first 30 days within your organization, it’s important to complete a high-level assessment of the current architectural landscape and make a gap analysis.

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Business Architecture Info can assist you in conducting a high-level assessment of the current architectural landscape. Identify the current level-1 business capabilities, major systems, platforms, and technologies. More precisely, you need to understand the current state of business architecture, data architecture, application architecture, and technology architecture within your firm.

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Once the current architectural landscape of your organization is complete, we will also help you identify the important gaps between the current state and the desired future state. This implies understanding the major pain points, inefficiencies, and areas that need immediate attention within your firm. These gaps usually need to be measured using KPIs and need to be sorted by priority.​

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B- Days 31-60: Deep Dive and Strategy Development

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In the second month of your new position, you need to deep dive and get into the strategy development of your organization by performing a detailed analysis, understanding the vision of your firm, building a strategic roadmap, and getting buy-in from the key stakeholders with whom you are involved.

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4. Detailed Analysis

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Business Architecture Info will also assist you in building a detailed analysis that will include business goals alignment, a review of the business capabilities, and a technical analysis of your company’s critical system.

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​​5. Vision and Roadmap

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Once you’ve completed your detailed analysis, you define the vision of your enterprise architecture practice and build a strategic roadmap of the initiatives and projects to undertake for your organization. ​Based on your initial analytic findings, start crafting a vision for the EA practice. This vision should align with the organization’s strategic goals and address the key pain points identified during your architectural assessment. You also need to develop a high-level strategic roadmap outlining key initiatives and projects for the next 12-18 months. It is imperative that you prioritize initiatives based on business impact, feasibility, and alignment with the identified strategic goals.

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6. Stakeholder Buy-In

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To increase the odds of successfully delivering the identified strategic initiatives and projects, it is essential that you have stakeholder buy-in by presenting your findings and having a feedback loop mechanism in place. Here, we can assist you in preparing a presentation summarizing your findings, vision, and proposed roadmap. It requires to be shown to key stakeholders, including executive leadership, to seek their input and buy-in.  We can also implement a feedback loop mechanism to refine your vision and roadmap based on stakeholder input. This iterative process will ensure that your plans are well-aligned with business needs and have the necessary managerial support.

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7. Communication and Reporting

 

It is important to establish a communication plan for providing regular updates on the progress of your EA initiatives and projects to the business and IT stakeholders that you are involved with. This should include both formal reports and informal check-ins. Business Architecture Info will assist you in writing your company’s and EA practice’s success stories and early wins to build momentum and demonstrate the value of your practice. This is essential to maintain stakeholder support and enthusiasm.​​

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C- Days 61-90: Execution and Early Wins

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In the third month of your new assignment, you should be able to establish governance, refine frameworks, develop your team, and begin some execution by demonstrating early wins and completing detailed roadmaps of one or several pilot projects.

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8. Quick Wins and Pilot Projects

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Business Architecture Info will help you identify a few quick-win projects that can deliver immediate value and demonstrate the impact of the EA function. These projects should ideally address critical pain points or inefficiencies identified during your assessments. At a minimum, these quick wins need to demonstrate a high return on investment with either cost savings or additional revenue. You should also be able to deliver a detailed roadmap of one or two pilot project(s) for the strategic initiatives that you have elaborated in the two first months of your new job.  These pilots will help validate your approach and provide early insights that can be used to refine your strategy.​

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9. Governance and Frameworks

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It is also necessary to develop and implement a grounded and simple EA governance framework. We will help you build guidelines for architecture decision-making, standards, and principles. This will require you to establish an EA review board with representation from key stakeholders.​

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10. Team Development

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You will not be successful alone. With our numerous contacts, we will help develop a reliable and diversified team with business and not just IT skills. We will also show you how to set clear boundaries and delegate responsibilities within your team.​​

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Benefits of a Value-Based EA Practice

By partnering with us to build your Value-Based EA practice, you’ll gain the following:

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• Enhanced Alignment between IT and business strategies, making EA a driver of business growth.

• Agility and Flexibility to adapt to changing market demands and technology trends.

• Improved Decision-Making through data-driven insights and a clear value-focused roadmap.

• Streamlined Processes that reduce operational overhead and enhance productivity across your organization.

 

Ready to transform your EA function into a powerful, value-driven practice? Contact Business Architecture Info today to learn how we can help you establish an EA practice designed to deliver tangible business value, align with strategic goals, and position your organization for long-term success.

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Let’s build an EA practice that’s more than just a technical function—let’s make it a strategic advantage.