The ability of organizations to make better-informed business and technology decisions has never been more important or more urgent.
Organizations with lower levels of EA maturity aren’t yet reaping the full benefits of their EA program. While EA contributes to strategy and planning, it’s not driving more concrete outcomes, like faster time to market or an improved CX. Since those are key determinants of business success, action is needed here.
EA teams are good at helping IT to invest in the right tools to support business strategy. However, the responses suggest the discipline must increase its visibility and accessibil-ity if it’s to have a strong impact on business performance. Communicating its value and making it easier for stakeholders to engage with EA should be key priorities.
EA performance advantages come from a long-term commitment to developing the organization’s EA and change capabilities.
1. The mission and value of their EA function are understood and valued across their organization
2. Their EA development process is well defined, understood, and executed
3. Their EA deliverables are current and relevant to support and drive change
4. They have sufficiently trained and business-knowledgeable EA practitioners
5. Their EA helps align IT investments with long-term strategy to reduce risk and deliver business value outcomes
6. They use an EA management tool that supports governed, collaborative design, adherence to industry standards, and powerful analysis
7. Stakeholders across their businesses can easily engage EA people, processes, deliverables, and insights via a web-based collaborative portal
These EA capabilities share multiple interdependencies. For example:
Attempting to make your EA deliverables current and able to support change would be tremendously hard if you had not defined the approach and invested in a fit-for-purpose EA management tool.
Attempting to spread the mission and vision of EA across the organization would not make sense unless you had the resources, approach, and tools ironed out.
Attempting to engage business stakeholders through a collaborative portal would not make sense if the content was outdated.
If your organization is somewhere on this journey, the chances are you’ll find it helpful to assess your progress using an industry-benchmarked approach. source
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