1. Improvement
Assess, guide & improve your IT

2. E2 Partners
2 Improve 2 Manage 2 Build
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3 units
Assess, guide & improve your IT

3. What
Things we can do in an improvement track?
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4. What?
Enterprise
Architecture
Solution
Architecture
Business
Architecture
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Different disciplines

5. What?
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Things we can do in an improvement track
Enterprise ArchitectureBusiness Architecture Solution Architecture
 Increase IT delivery capacity by tuning IT processes
 Rationalisation of your IT landscape
 Consolidation of IT assets
 Standardize the integration between your IT systems
 Guide your Service Oriented Architecture venture
 Optimize business processes
 Define the business capabilities
 Design & improve operating models
 Translate strategic objectives into future proof IT assets
 Relieve technical debt
 Optimize IT organisation/development street

6. Why
What’s in it for you?
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7. improve your business processes and IT
landscape to get you further.

8. Why?
 Get rid of your “IT is slow” reputation
 Improve product & services Go To Market speed
 Reduce cost in processes, people and systems
 Enable new business opportunities by technology advances
 Go further than “IT as a support organisation”
 Increase IT visibility & transparency, become more predictable
 Absorb the internet paradigm in the whole organisation
 Become a process oriented organisation
 Realistic integration & alignment during an acquisition
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Things we can do for you

9. How
Standards, frameworks, tools & techniques
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10. How?
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Standards, frameworks, tools & techniques

11. Approach
Working together
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12. Approach
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Working from different angles
Top down
Bottom up

13. Approach
Envisioning
Determine
“As Is”
situation
Define the
“To Be”
target
Improve
Overall approach for an improvement track

14. Approach
• Define the goal
• Define the priorities
• Stakeholder map
• Architecture Vision
• Define the (architecture) principles
• Communication approach
• Capability assessment
• Risk assessment
• Key business drivers
• Interview plan
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Envisioning of an improvement track
Envisioning

15. Approach
• Focus on People, Processes & Tools
• On 4 areas
– Business architecture (*)
– Information Architecture
– Application Architecture
– Technology Architecture
• Methodologies
• Health states
• Maturity levels
• Tuned for respective stakeholder audience
(*) IT itself is also considered a business unit
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Determine the “As Is“ situation
Determine
“As Is”
situation

16. Approach
• Improvement on KPI’s
• Solution design
• Changed & new business processes
• Rationalized IT landscape
• Master data approach
• Methodology approach
• Application architecture styles
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Define the “To Be” target
Define the
“To Be”
target

17. Approach
• Define roadmap based on
– Concrete actions
– Prioritized
– Budget and/or Level of effort
– Aligned with business strategy
• Phasing & milestones
• Implementation plan
• Low hanging fruit, fundamental changes, continuous improvement
• Project management
• Change management
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Strategy of the improvement
Improve

18. Format
 End 2 end projects
 Together with 2 Build, 2 Manage
 Cronos partners
 Consultancy
 Full time, part time, fixed schedule
 Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly basis
 Specific time boxed audits
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We can work accordingly

19. Timing example
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Examples of timing & phases
Envisioning As Is To Be Improve
1- 2 weeks 3-5 weeks 2- 4 weeks ... weeks/months
Roadmap One or more iterations of change
• Example times can be a fraction or multitude based on the depth and breadth
• Agreed deliverables after every phase
• Exit points after every phase
• Improvement phase consist of small iterations of “continuous improvement”
• Mutual agreement on resources required (e.g. PM, EA, specific analysts, ...)
• Important to make key people available

20. THANK YOU
Questions?
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