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Forrester Research — Enterprise Architecture: Laggards Versus Leaders Forrester Webinar (June 2023)
14 slides from Forrester Research's conference presentation, June 2023
Slide 1: Enterprise Architecture: Laggards Versus Leaders — Trends Revealed
Enterprise Architecture: Laggards Versus Leaders — Trends Revealed On The Global State of EA Dr. Gordon Barnett, FCCA Principal Analyst, Forrester
Slide 2: Forrester's EA Awards suggest that there are four EA archetypes
Forrester’s EA Awards suggest that there are four EA archetypes Successful EAs primarily focus on one of the quadrants. Those EA practices that struggle tend to try to tackle all four quadrants, delivering too little value to too many stakeholders. © Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 S
Slide 3: Primary purpose of EA: shift to technology strategy
Indicate the primary purpose of EA in your organization: 2022 67% 2021 In 2021, we saw a 2020 Tech strategy 42% 51% significant shift to the “technology strategy” 14% EA archetype Business project 21% 28% 11% Historically, we had seen a growth in Tech project 15% business-centric EA. Maybe due to th
Slide 4: Technology strategy created new demand for EA
What business and technology themes are increasing demand for EA in your organization? Focus on employee experience 42% This shift to Products and services becoming more based on technology technology 37% technology strategy Need for innovation 36% created new demand Improving ability to see results
Slide 5: The EA ecosystem is still growing, particularly in business domains
Architects that exist in respondents’ organizations: Solution 90% Security 90% … but the EA Application 87% ecosystem is still Information/Data 86% growing, particularly Cloud 77% Integration 76% in business domains … Business Domain 67% Business 65% Product 58% Technology architects lead the Proces
Slide 6: Leading to EAs building relationships across the ecosystem
EA is increasing collaboration with the following stakeholders: 79% 2022 Business strategy 73% 44% 2021 67% Data governance & BI 71% 45% 2020 65% PMO 56% 29% … leading to EAs IT operations 30% 52% 64% building relationships Customer experience 36% 59% 55% across the ecosystem CTO 36% 58% 57% 56% Lin
Slide 7: But EA is still finding it hard to obtain advocates
Who advocates or strongly supports EA efforts: IT leadership 64% Security 51% IT staff in applications or infrastructure 41% But EA is still finding Audit & compliance 31% Corporate management 31% it hard to obtain Risk 26% advocates Partners 22% eBusiness 19% Product management 19% It is disappoint
Slide 8: The EA ecosystem as the EA discipline has matured
The EA ecosystem as the EA discipline has matured Experience, Business, Process, Roles Technology Organization, And And Information Digital Focus Efficiency and cost Investment Outcomes and value DRIVERS ADAPTIVE Portfolio Portfolio of Portfolio of Portfolio of value- CREATIVE business technology as
Slide 9: There has been little change in how EAs are organized
“How is the architecture function organized in your firm?” Products and services becoming more based on technology 37% 2022 Hybrid 44% There has been little 2021 change in how EAs are Centralized 35% 35% organized and where they report ... Embedded in integrated product/service/customer teams 8% 13%
Slide 10: ... and this impacts EA practices
… and this impacts EA practices … Where respondents rank across the four dimensions: 1 2 3 4 5 47% 34% 4% 15% 0% Command And Control Trusted Governance 34% 31% 22% 0% 13% Mandated Framework Agnostic To Framework 44% 25% 21% 7% 3% Perfection Over Speed Speed Over Perfection 43% 28% 1% 12% 16% Waterfa
Slide 11: ... how EA measures itself and architectural success
“Does your architecture program capture and track the following metrics?” Technology portfolio health 58% Alignment of projects to architecture 53% Architecture engagement with projects 51% Architecture or technical debt 46% … how EA measures Architecture maturity or completeness 45% itself and arch
Slide 12: ... and the tools EAs use
Do you use a professional EA tool? 2022 82% Microsoft Office documents for EA 2021 52% 33% … and the tools EAs Internal strategic planning tool 5% use. 29% COTS vendor EA management suite 30% Too many EAs do not utilize 13% Other a professional EA tool, 0% preferring to use the Microsoft Office suit
Slide 13: The emerging tech focus for EAs is largely staying the same
What technology are you exploring or exploiting? Intelligent automation 82% Cybersecurity and privacy 81% Governance, risk, and compliance 79% The emerging tech Application architecture 78% focus for EAs is Digital business platforms Cloud computing 76% 76% largely staying the Software development,
Slide 14: Thank You.
Thank You. Dr. Gordon Barnett, FCCA Principal Analyst, Forrester Dr. Gordon Barnett FCCA © Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved.