IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
Shaping tomorrow’s IT strategically – from today’s system landscapes to the AI-enabled enterprise.
New business models, regulatory requirements, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence are changing what a company’s IT has to deliver. To keep investments from fizzling out in isolated projects, you need an IT strategy that is consistently derived from your business goals – and an enterprise architecture that translates this strategy into sustainable structures.
We translate your business strategy into an IT strategy and strategic architecture goals: with clear guardrails, IT and architecture principles, governance and priorities. The starting point is a sober assessment of your current application, data and technology landscape and of your capability and technology portfolio. Building on this, we develop a target architecture with you – with options and openly stated trade-offs instead of a supposedly single right answer.
Strategy also means deciding how your IT will work in future. Together we design the IT operating model: organization and responsibilities, required capabilities and skills, sourcing and partners, and the interplay of business units, platform teams, governance and increasingly AI-supported teams.
We assess the opportunities, risks and maturity of new technologies – generative AI, agentic systems, cloud and data platforms, automation – transparently for your context, without unsubstantiated promises. We plan the transition from legacy IT to AI-shaped IT step by step: through transition architectures, modernization options and migration paths, piloting, a roadmap prioritized by value, investment and dependencies, accompanying change management and ongoing value management.
Our services
- Deriving the IT strategy from business strategy and corporate goals: strategic architecture goals, guardrails and priorities
- Establishing IT and architecture principles and lean architecture governance (e.g. architecture board, documented architecture decisions)
- Analyzing the current landscape: assessing applications, data and technologies as well as the capability and technology portfolio by lifecycle, risk and consolidation potential
- Developing the target architecture and enterprise architecture – with options, trade-offs and decision papers for management
- Designing the future IT operating model: organization, responsibilities, skills, sourcing and partners, collaboration between business units, platform teams and AI-supported teams
- Assessing the opportunities, risks and maturity of new technologies (AI, agentic systems, cloud and data platforms, automation) for your company
- Planning the transition from legacy IT to AI-enabled IT: transition architectures, modernization options, migration paths and piloting
- Prioritizing the transformation roadmap by value, investment and dependencies – with change support and ongoing value management
Deliverables
- IT target picture and strategic architecture goals
- Architecture principles and guardrails
- Capability map and assessed technology portfolio
- Decision papers with options and trade-offs
- Transformation roadmap with transition architectures
Methods & frameworks
- TOGAF / Enterprise Architecture Management
- Capability Mapping
- Technology Roadmapping
- IT Operating Model
- Architecture governance
Typical dip roles
- Enterprise & solution architecture advisor
- AI / digital transformation advisor
- Enterprise and cloud architect
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