Blueprinting & Roadmapping

Enterprise Architecture
March 2018

Blueprinting & Roadmapping

Enterprise Architecture

Navigating the organization through the complex

environment of the business environment has become
more complicated.

Following the right road to success and keeping track of

your results requires a clear Blueprint and Roadmap.

Enterprise Architecture enables your journey to a better

enterprise-wide IT architecture by providing targets
and guidance along the wat on strategic choices, scope,
and design.
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“75% of the CIO’s believe
that strategic alignment is
a necessary IT capability.“
CIO Survey 2016-2017
Background
As organizations become more complex
every day, aligning departments with the
company’s overall vision and strategy is
becoming more difficult. Especially on the
level of IT, this demonstrates in the highly
complex IT landscape, with many different
applications and technologies of which is
not clear if and how they are related. This
complexity of your architecture also effects
the overall efficiency and effectiveness of
your IT.
Therefore, many organizations opt to
transform to a more rationalized IT
landscape, which is standardized with less
applications and technologies and where
interdependencies are clear.
Enterprise Architecture enables this
transformation to a better enterprise wide
IT architecture by providing targets and
guidance on strategic choices, scope and
design. Two of the most important stages
in achieving the rationalized IT architecture
are Blueprinting and Roadmapping.
Blueprinting is a tool to identify actions
of each stakeholder and the processes to
support them for a service or business.
A blueprint provides businesses with the
visualization of the Enterprise Architecture
at conceptual, logical and physical level
of an enterprise, showing concepts, their
elements, the components that implement
the elements and their interrelationships.
Roadmapping, on the other hand, provides
visuals that represent the future vision
of facets of an organization and its IT
components. Roadmaps are an important
concept when we look at planning. Whether
that’s planning our applications, business
capabilities, processes or technology.
Our approach
The right blueprints and roadmaps create
potential to substantially improve strategy
execution, IT portfolio management, and
individual project delivery. But the chances
are that most organizations aren’t making
the most of theirs.
One of the main challenges for businesses
is implementing the strategy in such a way
that allows you to exploit all the potential of
your Enterprise Architecture.
As Deloitte we can help you bridge
between strategy development and
the transformation execution to get the
maximum out of your resources.
We first start by assessing, prioritizing
and communicating the focus areas
through roadmaps which are based on
your strategies and requirements. We help
you steer, align and accelerate initiatives
towards the envisioned landscape.
Next we start the with Blueprinting, in
which we first break down the journeys
and in turn construct high level choices.
Afterward, blueprints-as-is and blueprints-
as-be are constructed to show the
changes. Finally, a capability assessment is
performed on your Enterprise Architecture.
Here every business capability is defined
by a combination of process, organization,
technology and data, while being managed
by a governance structure and supported
by the Enterprise Architecture.
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The implementation
Long term blueprints facilitate discussions
about how to implement the business
strategy and its potential impact.
Translating strategy into a blueprint must
start with business capabilities. Since
changing the business means changing
your capabilities as an enterprise, we pay
attention especially the core abilities which
act as your main drivers.
Therefore, we create a business capability
blueprint which provides you a starting
point to scope and prioritize the required
transformations.
By zooming in from the business capability
we provide a more granular view of the
moving parts which must work together
to be effective. On this level the impact of
the strategy should be determined and
initiatives defined which improve these
working parts to strengthen the capability
as a whole.
A capability-based approach ensures that
the Enterprise Architecture Department
meets the business needs and enables
project acceleration and guidance on
strategic choices, scope and design.
“Use Deloitte’s
exhaustive experience
in Enterprise
Architecture consulting
to improve Enterprise
Architecture
departments
worldwide.”
Our capabilities
Without a holistic overview of the
Enterprise Architecture in an overly
complex business and IT landscape,
managing and reducing (IT) costs becomes
an extremely difficult challenge.
Our objective is to provide assistance
during this process by drawing on both
our technical experience and our business
subject matter specialists. This enables
your team to defend technological
decisions on a verified accounting of what
each decision means to your business.
At Deloitte, we help you create a holistic
framework and viewpoint which are based
on our broad knowledge on Enterprise
Architecture. Our exhaustive experience
in Enterprise Architecture consulting
has helped improve client’s Enterprise
Architecture departments worldwide.
The Deloitte
advantage
Successful strategy
implementation requires a holistic
approach in which Blueprints and
Roadmaps play a crucial role. As
Deloitte we can help you bridge
between strategy development
and the transformation execution
to get the maximum out of
your resources.
We carry an exhaustive consulting
experience in building Blueprints
and Roadmaps for Enterprise
Architecture departments in many
different markets, with national
and international clients in
different sizes. The knowledge
sources are international, which
entails that the latest best
practices will be applied for your
organization and specific needs.
We bring to bear operational
experience and insight from both
business and technology
perspectives supported by leading
industry experience.
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Conclusion Contact us:

In sum Blueprints and Roadmaps are
essential components the alignment Andreas Boon
process of the Enterprise Architecture Manager
strategy execution with intended strategy Tel: +31 (0)88 288 7105
results. Mobile: +31 (0) 6 8333 9609
E-mail: aboon@deloitte.nl
The lack of these elements does not
only decrease the effectiveness of your Eric Onderdelinden
Enterprise Architecture, but also makes it Director
extremely difficult to manage. Tel: +31 (0)88 288 7884
Mobile: +31 (0)6 8333 9816
Our objective is to provide assistance E-mail: eonderdelinden@deloitte.nl
during this process by drawing on both
our technical experience and our business
subject matter specialists. This enables
your team to defend technology decisions
on a verified accounting of what each
decision means to your business.

“Architecture enables your journey to a

better enterprise-wide IT architecture
by providing targets and guidance along
the wat on strategic choices, scope,
and design.”

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