Aerie Partners Can Help You Align Your Technology to Your Business
Enterprise Architecture and Alignment
Enterprise Architecture keeps your business/mission at the forefront of technology decisions. Starting with the business needs, it identifies the information needed to support the business, and in turn what technology is needed to best provide the required information. Too often, Enterprise Architecture is misunderstood to only be a set of technology standards that are followed across the enterprise, but unless those standards are driven by business/mission requirements, they can can actually result in detrimental technology decisions. Aerie Partners can help you assess your enterprise architecture and determine if it is business driven (good), or technology driven (not good) and determine what is needed to remediate if necessary.
Benefits
What we do
Outcomes
Business/Mission – Technology Alignment
With an enterprise architecture that has a robust business layer, technology will support the business/mission, rather than technology being something that the business will need to adapt to.
Business/Mission Enablement and Optimization
Technology becomes a strategic business/mission enabler that can provide a competitive advantage. Basing technology decisions on how they affect business outcomes optimizes your technology to business goals.
Reduced Complexity through Standardization
A comprehensive enterprise architecture will drive out complexity resulting in lower costs, more reliability, and reduced effort to support. For example, instead of having each product or service define it’s own user management approach, which would increase complexity, am enterprise architecture led approach would result in a single user management approach that would then be integrated in all of your products and services. Enterprise architecture driven standards creates a more supportable technology environment and reduces cost to provide services
Assess Current Enterprise Architecture
We will start at the top and look to see how the business functions are documented in your current enterprise architecture. If there are gaps, that will be starting point. Next we will assess the information available to the business and the applications and infrastructure that make information available. We’ll work with you to get an understanding if technology is influencing the business/mission, or if the business/mission is influencing technology
Identify Gaps
Again, working from the top down, we will identify gaps at each layer and develop remediation plans. While we use leading enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, we avoid a check-the-box mindset and instead focus on using enterprise architecture to open up discussions between the business and technology teams to identify where the business isn’t getting its needs fully met.
Implement Remediation Plan
In the final phase we will execute the remediation plan and put processes into place that are designed to keep the enterprise architecture aligned to the business. While approaches can vary based on your unique needs, the outcomes are always evaluated based on how well we have been able to improve the use of technology to support the business/mission goals.
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