Advisory Offer
Enterprise Architecture Foundation
Establish a right-sized enterprise architecture practice with the operating model, governance, standards and roadmap needed to guide technology decisions.
Where this sits in a D² engagement
- Assess
- ArchitectThis offer
- Enable
The challenge
The organization needs architecture leadership and consistent technology decisions, but has no established practice, or has a practice that exists on paper without real influence.
What D² delivers
A practical enterprise architecture foundation: operating model, decision rights, governance cadence, initial standards and patterns, tooling approach and a capability-based roadmap that connects to business priorities.
Typical activities
- Business capability and priority mapping
- Architecture operating-model design
- Governance and decision-rights definition
- Initial standards, principles and pattern selection
- Current-state baseline and target-state framing
- Roadmap development with business and technology leaders
Expected outputs
- Architecture operating model and governance charter
- Architecture principles, standards and initial patterns
- Capability-based roadmap
- Decision-record approach and templates
- Adoption plan for the first governance cycles
Ideal client profile
- Mid-market organizations establishing architecture for the first time
- Enterprises restarting a stalled architecture function
- Organizations scaling beyond founder-led technology decisions
Engagement format
A staged engagement that stands up the practice and supports its first governance cycles.
Discuss whether this engagement fits your situation.
Scope, depth and format are right-sized in the first conversation, before any commitment.