During EA Connect Day in New York City on June 7th, 2018, LeanIX's VP Customer Success, Christian Richter, applied his expertise to what the best practices are to make an EA tool adoption successful.
3. Gartner: Only 50 % of companies
have successful EA tool
implementations on first attempt
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4. Overcoming the critical hurdles in successful implementation
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Mismatch
with end-user needs
Incomplete or
inaccurate information
Unclear value prop
for continued
investment
Time
Value
Accelerate
Grow
Develop
5. Earn trust by delivering fast results
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Build bridges,
bepragmatic
Focus –
don‘t boil the ocean
Activate
yourstakeholders
Enable your users
Visualize
transparency
Rely on standards /
best practices
6. Rely on best practices and do not re-invent the wheel
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
7. Grow your user base and ensure ease of use
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Scale usage
and training
Establish governance
and ownership
Createa user base
of content contributors
and consumers
Get rid of manual /
Excel processes (e.g. App
survey)
Promote yourresults
and enlarge scope
Automate data import
from other systems
8. An EA tool is the central information repository in the IT
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
9. Let EA become the trusted partner for IT Management
decisions
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Grow an
interdisciplinary
team
Get yourself on the
decision table
Proactively approach
ITmanagement with
strategic options
Set, track,and
re-evaluateyourtargets
Establish EAas keypart
of yourITprocesses
Develop
furtheruse cases with
yourstakeholders
10. Transparency is really just the beginning
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Accelerate
Grow
Develop
Reduce
Complexity
Enable
Growth
Ensure
Compliance
Cloud
Transformation
Monolith to
Microservices
Application
Rationalization
Technology
Obsolescence
Data
Compliance
(e.g. GDPR)
Post Merger
Harmonization
Standards
Governance
Integration
Architecture
IoT
Architectures
LeanIX Use Cases
Transparency
Know your stakeholders (consumers / creators) - set expectations
Focus - don‘t boil the ocean: focus use case, focus project
Transparency first
Rely on standards
We train the trainer, you train the users
Know your stakeholders (consumers / creators) - set expectations
Focus - don‘t boil the ocean
Transparency first
Rely on standards
We train the trainer, you train the users
Scale usage: training
Create a user base that contributes to the content
Establish governance mechanisms and ownership for the data
Automate data import from other systems
Develop further use cases
Establish EA as key part of your IT processes: IT Development / Projects, Strategy-Reviews, IT Gremien, IT Program Management, IT Audits
Set, track and re-evaluate your targets
Develop further use cases
Establish EA as key part of your IT processes
Set, track and re-evaluate your targets