Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture assists organizations confronting a fundamental challenge - enacting their strategy.  Most effective leaders perform many of the key functions of enterprise architecture intuitively. They intuitively understand the system of their enterprise: the linkages between different parts; how the different parts contribute to the achievement of goals; what missing, or ineffective, capability hinders the achievement of goals and what initiatives are truly aligned with the achievement of the organizations goals.

Audience Served

Enterprise architecture serves two key audiences:

  1. Any leader who has directed that a change initiative be undertaken. The business unit leaders and planners
  2. Anyone charged with designing the solution(s) that will address the change initiative. The change leaders, designers, developers and builders

The first audience needs to understand the linkages between different parts of the organization, how they contribute, what capability required is either missing or ineffective, how underpinning  technology is supporting, of hindering the organization and what initiatives are truly aligned with the achievement of the organization?s goals

The second audience needs to understand how their solution fits within the overall organization and serves to enable the strategy

Enterprise Architecture Methods

An effective leader intuitively performing Enterprise Architecture does not translate into the organization effectively organizing to achieve its goals. Time and energy constraints often leave those charged with driving change and operating functional groups with limited view of the whole and how they fit in. Actions undertaken to operate and improve units within an organization often conflict with the overall goal of the organization.

Most organizations have not formally described enterprise architecture. There are four core drivers that result in organizations describing and maintaining enterprise architecture:

  • Need to change: Competition, environment, ecosystem, regulation - velocity required for business decision taking is breathtakingly
  • Pervasive use of information technology: We don't sell, ship, invoice, hire or manage without IT systems. Yet systems do not cleanly enable key business processes
  • Complexity: The knee-bone is connected to the .... the complexity of legacy point systems are a barrier to improvement
  • Accountability: Society demand ever greater accountability from businesses and their management. Yet systems consistently fail to deliver relevant, accurate and timely insights

A well constructed Enterprise Architecture helps an organization articulate how competes and what its key mission is. It guides managers' daily decisions to realize the vision of success.

A well constructed enterprise architecture helps the effective execution of business strategy

Hornford Associates & Integritas

We are completing the integration of our operations into Integritas Solutions Inc. Hornford Associates has transformed into Integritas' Architecture Practice. Our Operations and Project Management capabilities have been integrated into Integritas' IT Service Management and Project Management capabilities.