Some of you might have caught my webinar last week ‘Sketching a Roadmap for EA in the Age of Digital Disruption’. If you didn’t you can check out the recording and download the slides from Slideshare in this post.
Here are a few key take outs:
- Business models do not last as long as they used to – and digitization accelerates disruption and rapidly shortens the cycle;
- Every CEO in every organisation must come to terms with digitization and its effects, such as how:
- it will affect their industry and competitive position;
- their own organisation can leverage digital capabilities.
- Understanding existing and required business capabilities (people, process, technology and information flows) is extremely useful when contemplating candidate business models – if not flat-out necessary;
- A new architecture job family is emerging to support disruptive strategy and business model innovation;
- The emerging job family is taking EA from ‘EA = Business Architecture + Enterprise-wide IT Architecture (EWITA)’ to ‘EA = Business Design’;
- This new approach to enterprise planning, which unifies business architecture and the traditional world of EA, also recognises the importance of value discipline alignment for business model and capability orientation;
- Organisations (and architects) must now think about Enterprise Lifecycles and seek to harmonise and synchronise the commissioning and decommissioning of business capabilities to bring new products to market, manage the business model portfolio and support the continual development of the brand platform – and the broader enterprise as a going concern.
EA’s Enterprise Lifecycles – illustrating the need to co-ordinate product, capability, business model and brand with the enterprise strategy and objectives.
This is truly an exciting time for practitioners of enterprise architecture and business model innovation.
If you’d like to learn more, please review the presentation below:
Webinar Video Recording
Slide Share presentation
If you have any questions about the webinar presentation please add them to the comments section below and I’ll respond swiftly.
Great thought from a traditional business model that is based on Industry 3.0. Easy to understand and apply.
Cool concept but had difficulty differentiating the 4 levels of the new family. Also have this feeling that the vision is to justify and have architects everywhere. Would it not be better to train the CXO’s DBMs, Strategy guys, Product design managers in architecture thinking – another trend in disruption is to have small focused teams making big calls fast, would seem to me adding more people in the mix will slow it down. I like the idea of Architects being able to respond quickly to new biz model due to understanding capability and knowing which components can be leveraged for the new stuff just not sure you need architects higher uo the stack. Business consultants ( who get called in to do the new biz model thinking ) would also benefit from architecture thinking training
Hi Steve – fair question about differentiating the 4 levels… the real idea is that there needs to be an architect (or architecture thinker) that is driving the value discipline focus into the business capabilities. I think the next wave of architects will be more about speed rather than blocking the process… we (at EA) are moving towards a much more streamlined process that is designed to achieve results much more rapidly – and importantly – results that are directly traceable to supporting business objectives.
Hi Steve – I’m also really interested to hear your views on structuring an architecture thinking course for various groups. What would you include in the curriculum? What, at its essence, do you believe architecture thinking actually is?
Great presentation Hugh – your future state of architecture sounds interesting. I wonder if we can change and adapt as a discipline at the pace the world is changing around us. I look forward to reviewing the slides. Thanks