The document outlines strategies for successfully adopting enterprise architecture (EA) tools, emphasizing the need to understand end-user needs and deliver quick results. Key recommendations include building stakeholder bridges, automating processes, and fostering an EA community to improve value and ease of use. It also stresses the importance of governance, transparency, and adapting to changing technology landscapes.

1. How to make your EA tool
adoption successful
Christian Richter, VP Customer Success
LeanIX EA Connect Day USA, 2018

2. > 50k
Users
> 300k
Fact Sheets
> 120
Customers
> 1.1 mio.
Relations

3. Gartner: Only 50 % of companies
have successful EA tool
implementations on first attempt
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4. Overcoming the critical hurdles in successful implementation
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Mismatch
with end-user needs
Incomplete or
inaccurate information
Unclear value prop
for continued
investment
Time
Value
Accelerate
Grow
Develop

5. Earn trust by delivering fast results
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Build bridges,
bepragmatic
Focus –
don‘t boil the ocean
Activate
yourstakeholders
Enable your users
Visualize
transparency
Rely on standards /
best practices

6. Rely on best practices and do not re-invent the wheel
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop

7. Grow your user base and ensure ease of use
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Scale usage
and training
Establish governance
and ownership
Createa user base
of content contributors
and consumers
Get rid of manual /
Excel processes (e.g. App
survey)
Promote yourresults
and enlarge scope
Automate data import
from other systems

8. An EA tool is the central information repository in the IT
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop

9. Let EA become the trusted partner for IT Management
decisions
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Grow an
interdisciplinary
team
Get yourself on the
decision table
Proactively approach
ITmanagement with
strategic options
Set, track,and
re-evaluateyourtargets
Establish EAas keypart
of yourITprocesses
Develop
furtheruse cases with
yourstakeholders

10. Transparency is really just the beginning
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Reduce
Complexity
Enable
Growth
Ensure
Compliance
Cloud
Transformation
Monolith to
Microservices
Application
Rationalization
Technology
Obsolescence
Data
Compliance
(e.g. GDPR)
Post Merger
Harmonization
Standards
Governance
Integration
Architecture
IoT
Architectures
LeanIX Use Cases
Transparency

11. Wrap-Up
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Start small and
prove value
Establish an
EA community
Continuously
improve the value

12. Thank you!
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