Enterprise Architecture Services

Target State Determination

About this service

This service defines the “beacon on the hill” for your business and technology systems. It defines the Target State Solutions Architecture: the new and retained solutions required to achieve your business strategy/intent. This is essentially a “carving-up” of the Business Capability Model into which solutions will support them in the future. This will identify all the solutions required in the Target State to support delivering the Business Intent, what capabilities they must support and therefore required high-level functionality.

It will also define the Target State Architecture: how those solutions must be implemented to work together effectively and efficiently and most importantly be designed for change so that you are not just delivering tomorrows legacy. At Fragile to Agile this target state architecture is always based on the basic blueprint for a digitally transformed organisation, tailored for your organisation, and designed to ensure that not only does this support your business intent but as a key point of difference it is also designed to ensure you have the adaptability required to thrive in an age of constant change and ensure that this will be the last large scale transformation needed as therefore you will be positioned for incremental change.

For more detail on our blueprint for a digitally transformed organisation see our video series on The Anatomy of a Digitally Transformed Organisation.

Why is it important?

It defines a business strategy/intent blueprint for the organisations business and technology systems. By aligning an organisation’s operating capacities & strategic objectives a clearly defined Target State provides this picture and prepares the foundation for execution of future projects. Getting this right is key to strategic success and future growth as generating the will to achieve this target state.

For organisations planning a material business/digital transformation this is crucial as:

- You must know where you want to go as well where you are before you can plan the journey;
- To avoid ending up with what is referred to as an accidental or unconscious architecture which is unable to support its desired business strategy nor delivery the required agility for the future;
- To minimise the total cost of ownership for technology and maximise benefits and future agility;
- To provide a clear understanding of where you are heading with respect to technology so that when tactical imperatives arise requiring a detour from the Technology and Digital Roadmap, which they invariably will, fully informed decisions can be made of the consequences and trade-offs between alternative responses.

How we work with you

The first step will be to determine the Target State Solutions architecture by initially producing a starting point based upon:

- What can be retained from the Current State assessment;
- For gaps, an examination of available solution suites shall be performed to identify their capability footprints;
- Fragile to Agile intellectual property in supporting agile and cost-effective business enablers such as Integration Services, Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management;
- Industry best practice information regarding architectures required to better enable key capabilities;
- IT industry best practice information on architectures to support the enabler capabilities;
- Fragile to Agile intellectual property in designing and implementing an agile and cost-effective technology environment.

A workshop will then be held to validate and augment this starting point and the starting point model and associated documentation will be updated, and a review and update cycle will follow.

The Target State Architecture is produced by first tailoring the Fragile to Agile basic blueprint for a digitally transformed organisation for your organisation to produce the starting point target state. A workshop will then be held to validate and augment this starting point. The target state and associated documentation will be updated, and a review and update cycle will follow.

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