Blueprinting & RoadmappingEnterprise ArchitectureMarch 2018

Blueprinting & RoadmappingEnterprise Architecture

Navigating the organization through the complex environment of the business environment has become more complicated.

Following the right road to success and keeping track of your results requires a clear Blueprint and Roadmap.

Enterprise Architecture enables your journey to a better enterprise-wide IT architecture by providing targets and guidance along the wat on strategic choices, scope, and design.

Blueprinting & Roadmapping – Enterprise Architecture

BackgroundAs organizations become more complex every day, aligning departments with the company’s overall vision and strategy is becoming more difficult. Especially on the level of IT, this demonstrates in the highly complex IT landscape, with many different applications and technologies of which is not clear if and how they are related. This complexity of your architecture also effects the overall efficiency and effectiveness of your IT.

Therefore, many organizations opt to transform to a more rationalized IT landscape, which is standardized with less applications and technologies and where interdependencies are clear.

Enterprise Architecture enables this transformation to a better enterprise wide IT architecture by providing targets and guidance on strategic choices, scope and design. Two of the most important stages in achieving the rationalized IT architecture are Blueprinting and Roadmapping.

Blueprinting is a tool to identify actions of each stakeholder and the processes to support them for a service or business. A blueprint provides businesses with the visualization of the Enterprise Architecture at conceptual, logical and physical level of an enterprise, showing concepts, their elements, the components that implement the elements and their interrelationships.

Roadmapping, on the other hand, provides visuals that represent the future vision of facets of an organization and its IT components. Roadmaps are an important concept when we look at planning. Whether that’s planning our applications, business capabilities, processes or technology.

Our approachThe right blueprints and roadmaps create potential to substantially improve strategy execution, IT portfolio management, and individual project delivery. But the chances are that most organizations aren’t making the most of theirs.

One of the main challenges for businesses is implementing the strategy in such a way that allows you to exploit all the potential of your Enterprise Architecture.

As Deloitte we can help you bridge between strategy development and the transformation execution to get the maximum out of your resources.

We first start by assessing, prioritizing and communicating the focus areas through roadmaps which are based on your strategies and requirements. We help you steer, align and accelerate initiatives towards the envisioned landscape.

Next we start the with Blueprinting, in which we first break down the journeys and in turn construct high level choices. Afterward, blueprints-as-is and blueprints-as-be are constructed to show the changes. Finally, a capability assessment is performed on your Enterprise Architecture. Here every business capability is defined by a combination of process, organization, technology and data, while being managed by a governance structure and supported by the Enterprise Architecture.

“75% of the CIO’s believe that strategic alignment is a necessary IT capability.“

CIO Survey 2016-2017

Blueprinting & Roadmapping – Enterprise Architecture

The implementationLong term blueprints facilitate discussions about how to implement the business strategy and its potential impact.Translating strategy into a blueprint must start with business capabilities. Since changing the business means changing your capabilities as an enterprise, we pay attention especially the core abilities which act as your main drivers.

Therefore, we create a business capability blueprint which provides you a starting point to scope and prioritize the required transformations.

By zooming in from the business capability we provide a more granular view of the moving parts which must work together to be effective. On this level the impact of the strategy should be determined and initiatives defined which improve these working parts to strengthen the capability as a whole.

A capability-based approach ensures that the Enterprise Architecture Department meets the business needs and enables project acceleration and guidance on strategic choices, scope and design.

Our capabilitiesWithout a holistic overview of the Enterprise Architecture in an overly complex business and IT landscape, managing and reducing (IT) costs becomes an extremely difficult challenge.

Our objective is to provide assistance during this process by drawing on both our technical experience and our business subject matter specialists. This enables your team to defend technological decisions on a verified accounting of what each decision means to your business.

At Deloitte, we help you create a holistic framework and viewpoint which are based on our broad knowledge on Enterprise Architecture. Our exhaustive experience in Enterprise Architecture consulting has helped improve client’s Enterprise Architecture departments worldwide.

The Deloitte advantage

Successful strategy implementation requires a holistic approach in which Blueprints and Roadmaps play a crucial role. As Deloitte we can help you bridge between strategy development and the transformation execution to get the maximum out of your resources.

We carry an exhaustive consulting experience in building Blueprints and Roadmaps for Enterprise Architecture departments in many different markets, with national and international clients in different sizes. The knowledge sources are international, which entails that the latest best practices will be applied for your organization and specific needs.

We bring to bear operational experience and insight from both business and technology perspectives supported by leading industry experience.

“Use Deloitte’s exhaustive experience in Enterprise Architecture consulting to improve Enterprise Architecture departments worldwide.”

Blueprinting & Roadmapping – Enterprise Architecture

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ConclusionIn sum Blueprints and Roadmaps are essential components the alignment process of the Enterprise Architecture strategy execution with intended strategy results.

The lack of these elements does not only decrease the effectiveness of your Enterprise Architecture, but also makes it extremely difficult to manage.

Our objective is to provide assistance during this process by drawing on both our technical experience and our business subject matter specialists. This enables your team to defend technology decisions on a verified accounting of what each decision means to your business.

Contact us:

Andreas BoonManagerTel: +31 (0)88 288 7105Mobile: +31 (0) 6 8333 9609E-mail: aboon@deloitte.nl

Eric OnderdelindenDirectorTel: +31 (0)88 288 7884Mobile: +31 (0)6 8333 9816 E-mail: eonderdelinden@deloitte.nl

“Architecture enables your journey to a better enterprise-wide IT architecture by providing targets and guidance along the wat on strategic choices, scope, and design.”