Assess Your Enterprise Architecture Maturity
Because why wouldn’t you want to know how your EA department is doing?
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Contributors
- Michael Fulton, CDO and Senior IT Strategy & Architecture Consultant, CC and C Solutions
- Yasin Alsagoff, Senior Manager, Enterprise IT Architecture, Kamehameha Schools
- Djamel Djemaoun, Senior Enterprise Architect, CBC/Radio-Canada
- Huw Morgan, Vice President of EA and IT Strategy, Economical Insurance
Your Challenge
- Enterprise architecture (EA) departments are not always sure which areas to improve or how to yield the greatest benefit to the organization.
- Even if EA teams are achieving benefits, they do not always have the opportunity to show the investment justification to the business.
- It is difficult to tie business value to doing an EA maturity assessment.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Measuring operational maturity can only get you so far. The true indicator of maturity is value realized by the organization.
- The maturity target should be right-sized depending on organizational size and complexity. Reaching the top level of maturity isn’t necessarily appropriate for all EA departments.
Impact and Result
- Assess the maturity of the EA department.
- Understand what is required to mature an EA department, and define the organization’s optimal target maturity.
- Create a roadmap of EA initiatives.
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should complete the EA maturity assessment, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Complete the EA maturity assessment
Complete the EA assessment survey and go over the EA roadmap.
Guided Implementations
This guided implementation is a two call advisory process.
Call #1 - Complete the EA assessment survey and go over the EA roadmap
Call #2 - Incorporate stakeholder feedback into the action plan
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Enterprise Architecture Course
Right-size the EA operating model to reap the benefits of EA; improve business-IT alignment, lower costs, and decrease time to production.
This course makes up part of the Service Planning & Architecture Certificate.
Course information:
- Title: Enterprise Architecture Course
- Number of Course Modules: 6
- Estimated Time to Complete: 2-2.5 hours
- Featured Analysts:
- Gopi Bheemavarapu, Research Director, CIO Advisory
- Gord Harrison, SVP of Research and Advisory
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