How do you select the best architecture to implement your workforce, customer's, and partner's process and information needs? How do ensure architecture alignment to strategic plans? What is the lifecycle for introducing and managing the architecture layers and services? What is a best practice process for centralizing or decentralizing architecture services? Would an effective governance model promote the adoption and evolution of architecture standards & protocols? Are you diversifying your architecture investment in alignment with strategic plans?

Many organizations constantly grapple with these questions. Our architecture leadership practice employs a combination of leading models to assist in answering those challenges and more...
 

• Identify and analyze architecture layers that must be in place to execute on organization’s vision, goals and strategies. This includes, but is not limited to, selection criteria, processes, standards, tools, logical/physical designs, etc.
• Leverage industry models to "custom" build your architecture blueprint
• Align architecture blueprints with other organizational assets 

• Develop a tactical and strategic roadmap for the roll-out of the proposed architecture blueprint based on organizational readiness taking into account budget, timeframes, resources, current technology landscape, convergence strategies, etc.
• Propose an accompanying change management plan to effectively ensure the successful transition and implementation of the architecture roadmap

• Implement a lifecycle model to constantly monitor emerging processes, technologies and standards and sunset declining ones