About this service

The EA Health Check, assesses the current state of an organisation’s architecture practice, ultimately, providing a clear snapshot of the status of an organisation’s architecture capability, and how that architecture is being delivered and its capability to deliver services.

It comprises three critical aspects:

• • SWOT analysis – Typical Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis focused on the makeup and skills of your organisations current EA capability and its’ processes (“architecture the verb”) reporting on whether they are fit for purpose, delivering the promised value to your organisation and are sufficient to support your Business Intent.
  • Architecture (Process) Maturity Assessment using the US Department of Commerce (DoC) Architecture Capability Maturity Model (ACMM), the model that has been widely adopted as the de-facto standard for EA capability assessment.
  • An assessment Using our Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF) of the suitability of your Enterprise Architecture artefacts (“architecture the noun”) to meet your needs and identification of any key gaps.

Why is it important?

Enterprise Architecture turns strategy into execution, ensures that your technology and business design are aligned and driven by your business strategy/intent. In doing so, it enables you to execute your strategy with confidence whilst minimising total cost of ownership and risk and maximising benefits and resulting agility.

If your Enterprise Architecture capability is not efficient and effective, you will not obtain these key benefits of Enterprise Architecture. This service will tell whether it is fit-for-purpose and where not identify the gaps to be closed to make it so.