Customer-centric and Actionable Value Proposition Oriented (VPO) Adaptive Enterprise Architecture (EA)

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The emerging new digital ways of working, living and trends such Agile, Analytics, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile and Social require fundamental shift in design and implementation of enterprise architecture (EA). Traditional documentation-driven EA approach often falls short when a fast collaborative response is required to deal with the always changing demands of customers.




It is not only about APIs, service orientation or micro services etc. We need more customer-centric and actionable value proposition oriented (VPO) adaptive EA approaches.


How to harvest an adaptive EA practice? Here are some important points to start with from your customer perspective.




1) Who are you? Look at EA practice and role from customer perspective.    


2) What do you do? Look at your service offerings from customer perspective.


3) Why does it matter? Look at the value proposition from customer perspective.




It is not about sinking in the documentation/models or analysis paralysis. It is about addressing stakeholder concerns by identifying, designing and delivering the next value proposition (e.g. continuous smoother operations, operational efficiency, innovation and transformation).


In my next post, I will share about the role of an adaptive EA professional.




Thoughts?



Comments

  1. Unknown8 December 2016 at 23:28

    Hi Gill,

    Great work! Quiet keen on hearing more on how different it is from the traditionl practice. Does it mean that we will have an architecture which will feature continuous integration and development. In digital space where requirements are meant to change with fast pace, it will be interesting to see how we can leverage the most by using VOP EA.

    Cheers
    Abhishek L

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