Digital Initiatives
A digital strategy begins with a set of digital initiatives. We compile a list of digital initiatives. Then, we help you prioritize the most impactful ones.
Digital Strategy Offerings
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture delivers a unified blueprint of business processes, systems, and technology investments to eliminate redundancies, optimize operational models, and ensure every IT asset is strategically aligned with business priorities.
Our Digital Strategy Offerings
Enterprise Architecture At A Glance
Enterprise Architecture consists of at least three components.
Business Architecture
Document key capabilities of core business operations, and then align value streams and operating models with business strategy.
Enterprise Systems Landscape
Analyze your entire systems environment and how they link to business capabilities, to identify gaps and modernization opportunities.
IT Portfolio Strategy
Prioritize your IT assets and programs to maximize business value and reduce unnecessary costs.
Future
The Future Of Digital Strategy
We work with your desired end state in mind. By applying proven frameworks to understand your pain points, we're able to build a digital strategy tailored for you. We then help you align the people and processes within your organization to operationalize your digital strategy.
Digital Approach
The correct approach to executing digital initiatives involves a combination of people, process, and technology. We help tailor your approach for each initiative.
Digital Outcomes
Every digital initiative needs a measurable outcome. Defining KPI's and measuring outcomes helps to ensure that digital investments will pay off.
What to Expect
Common Deliverables For Enterprise Architecture
Every strategy project is unique. However, we've found that enterprise architecture usually requires the following deliverables.
Business capability heatmap
One-page view of how the business operates, with simple red/amber/green for importance and maturity, and a clear owner for each item.
Enterprise systems landscape
A diagram of all apps/platforms/data stores with owner, cost, risk, lifecycle, and which business capabilities they support, plus a simple diagram of key integrations.
Target state architecture
A diagram of all planned & desired apps/platforms/data stores, along with the cost, risk, and which business capabilities they will improve, along with a vision for the integration landscape.
Gap assessment and solution architectures
List of gaps, duplicates, and end‑of‑life systems from the current to the target state architecture, each with 2–3 fix options and rough value, cost, and risk.
Strategic program roadmap
A 12–36 month timeline with waves and quick wins, a ranked list of projects from the gap assessment, with budgets, key milestones and review dates.
In Detail
Ten Steps to Enterprise Architecture
This 10-step approach turns business goals into practical technology changes: map key business functions, list current systems, sketch the future setup, and decide what to do first, checking security, risk, and legal needs along the way. Use it to avoid scattered tools and waste by setting clear goals and rules, linking systems and data to the functions they support, writing plain business cases, ranking work by value, risk, and effort, setting roles and review points, and keeping plans and inventories up to date.
- 1 Establish scope, principles, and business context.
- Clarify objectives, constraints, time horizon, and guiding principles, and document value streams, key journeys, and KPIs to create a shared decision lens that anchors all subsequent modeling, design, and investment choices to measurable business outcomes.
- 2 Define and validate the business capability map.
- Build a hierarchical, system-agnostic capability map, heatmap importance and current performance/pain, and validate by overlaying value streams and core processes to ensure traceability to real work and reveal shared enablers and cross-functional dependencies.
- 3 Baseline the enterprise systems landscape and link to capabilities and data.
- Inventory applications, platforms, data stores, and integrations with ownership, lifecycle, cost, SLAs, risk, and tech debt, then map them to capabilities and data domains to identify fragmentation, duplication, under-support, and authoritative sources/CRUD.
- 4 Analyze information and integration architecture.
- Organize data into business-aligned domains, assess data quality and lineage, document integration patterns and coupling, and identify modernization targets and domain ownership/stewardship needs to guide adoption of APIs, event-driven designs, and MDM where appropriate.
- 5 Apply security, risk, and compliance overlays.
- Classify data, define control requirements and threat models, capture regulatory deadlines and residency constraints, and translate them into design implications (e.g., zero trust, encryption, regional isolation) and sequencing drivers that shape the roadmap.
- 6 Define target-state architecture and standards.
- Specify desired capability maturities, reference architectures, and technology standards, including cloud, data, integration, and security patterns and buy/build/SaaS posture, in a modular, principle-led target that supports transitional architectures for incremental adoption.
- 7 Identify gaps and develop options with business cases.
- Compare as-is to target to pinpoint capability gaps, duplication/obsolescence, EOL risks, cost-to-serve hotspots, and complexity clusters, then articulate reuse/consolidation/replacement/modernization/retirement options with value, cost, risk, and architectural fit estimates.
- 8 Build the roadmap and prioritize the portfolio.
- Sequence initiatives by dependencies, capacity, regulatory timing, and risk, define migration waves and interim states with quick wins, and prioritize using a weighted scoring model (value, risk reduction, urgency, time-to-value, fit, complexity, dependency centrality) with scenario analysis.
- 9 Set governance, operating model, and funding.
- Establish architecture and portfolio review cadences with checkpoints and exception processes, clarify roles and federated engagement (business, solution, data, security architects; capability owners; data stewards), and align budgets, capitalization, and chargeback to the roadmap.
- 10 Measure, tool, communicate, and iterate.
- Track EA and portfolio KPIs to verify benefits and guide re-prioritization, maintain an integrated EA/APM repository with CMDB and delivery telemetry, communicate via plain-language roadmaps and heatmaps with training/communities of practice, and refresh plans on a steady quarterly/annual cadence.
