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Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
Manager supports those involved in defining overarching strategies
and architectures for an enterprise. While applicable to all complex
organizations, this Adaptation is aimed particularly at US Federal
Government agencies, all of whom are now mandated by legislation to
develop comprehensive “enterprise architectures” that
show how proposed changes to processes and resources support the delivery
of government programs. Working with The Office of Management and
Budget within the Executive Office of the US President, Adaptive has
been actively involved in influencing the standards being defined
for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF). The Adaptive
Reference Model™, describing the structure of enterprise knowledge,
is becoming a de facto standard for defining Federal Enterprise Architectures.
Customers are using EAM to:
- Develop current state and future state Enterprise Architectures,
to be used as the foundation for aligned, synchronized and coordinated
business transformation
- Define and implement effective enterprise-wide performance scorecards
More than ever, the difference between success and failure
for any organization is the ability of its executive team to manage
complexity and to manage change. Increasing customization, growing
combinations of products, markets and channels, value chains turning
into value networks, non-traditional competition, mergers and acquisitions,
as well as continuing globalization dramatically increase complexity
within and across organizations.
The Challenge
Many organizations have difficulty effectively tracing
how their strategies are implemented and how resources are used across
the organization. Every year, millions or even billions of currency
is lost on mismatches between strategies, processes, performance targets,
roles and responsibilities, human resources, IT applications and projects
to improve all of these.
Top executives recognize that effectively managing an
organization requires a clear understanding and alignment of several
key factors. However, they typically lack the tools they need to manage
the complexity involved.
To continuously adapt to their changing environments,
executives must know about, keep in balance, and communicate several
things:
- What the exact strategies of the organization are and how these
should be implemented (Strategy Development and Organizational Change)
- What processes the organization executes, how they are integrated,
and how they contribute to the strategy of the organization (Business
Process Management)
- How human resources are being utilized and whether there is optimum
use of skills and resources available across processes and functions
(Human Resource Management)
- To what extent the organization chart is a proper reflection of
appropriate roles and responsibilities, in order to effectively
and efficiently carry out all work (Organization Management)
- What IT applications are available in the organization, how they
interface and what processes and functions they support (IT Portfolio
Management)
- How the performance of each process, each function and each individual
adds up to the organization’s performance (Performance Management)
- What projects are currently underway, how they effect and impact
change, what processes and IT applications they change and how this
contributes to the strategy of the organization (Project & Program
Management)
The symptoms of lack of knowledge or misunderstanding
about the above factors are that organizations have strategies that
are never implemented, do work that they should not carry out, have
no clue about the impact on the processes and performance when merging
organizations, downsizing departments or changing IT applications.
Your company at this very moment may be losing hundreds of millions
on these mismatches, often not adequately understanding the complexity
of the organization, its current state (AS-IS) and how to translate
and implement strategy into a future state (TO-BE).
The Solution
Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™ (EAM)
is a robust knowledge repository solution for organizing, integrating
and analyzing information describing the key elements of an enterprise.
Adaptive EAM captures the full scope of the Enterprise Architecture,
from strategic intent to business processes to enabling resources.
Adaptive’s powerful, scalable and web-based technology
supports the eleven architectural domains of the Adaptive Reference
Model™, used to identify and define the relationships among
the key elements of an enterprise, especially its:
- Business Drivers
- Objectives, Strategies & Performance Criteria
- Stakeholders
- Processes
- Resources
- Governance Mechanisms
Adaptive EAM integrates this strategic information for
more effective communication across the enterprise, and for better
decision-making in planning and monitoring continuous performance
improvements or transforming the business.
Adaptive EAM is being used by some of the world’s
largest organizations and federal government agencies to:
- Capture strategic intent and ensure it is understood throughout
the enterprise
- Develop Enterprise Architectures that align business and IT strategies,
processes and resources as the foundation for aligned, synchronized
and accelerated business transformation.
Adaptive EAM is a truly web-based application, so is
easy to deploy and maintain in large, highly dispersed enterprises,
providing enterprise-wide access to strategy and architecture models. |
