Blog EN - Business & IT Transformation

During even the most challenging times such as the Covid-19 pandemic, effective use of Enterprise Architecture (EA) can guide sound strategy, planning, and refining of processes within an organisation can maximise value and present opportunities.

When migrating applications to the cloud, Enterprise Architecture has become essential for determining the best migration strategy. It also helps re-architecting applications with an architecture that leverages the services provided by cloud platforms such as Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

In the highly disruptive, agile environments that are at the core of most businesses today, enterprise architects should become business partners who facilitate digital business transformation.

Scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe help organizations to apply lean and agile principles to a large enterprise. SAFe describes Enterprise Architecture as a key element to “foster adaptive design, and engineering practices, and drive programs and teams to rally around a shared technical vision.”

Modern business has grown increasingly complex over the years. Globalization, regulations, technology, business change, have had severe impacts on businesses of all sizes. This makes it increasingly difficult to keep business strategy and objectives in sync with continuously evolving and changing complexity. This is a significant challenge for directors, executives, middle management, and process owners, as well as back-office risk management professionals throughout the business.

The modern world of business is complex, dynamic, and chaotic. Growing regulatory regimes, globalization and competition have impacted organizations of all sizes. Keeping tabs on this constant change and growing complexity is a monumental task for organization’s leadership. Risks are changing at a rapid rate just as business processes are changing, which introduces more risks. Risks need to be understood in the context of current business processes. Effective risk management in modern organizations requires integrated risk and business process modeling.