Lavante · Enterprise Architecture Consulting

Enterprise & Business Architecture

Connecting business strategy with architectural direction.

Enterprise Architecture creates value when business ambitions are translated into clear architectural decisions and actionable transformation plans.

Lavante helps organizations understand their business capabilities, evaluate their technology landscape, define target architectures, and establish coherent transformation roadmaps.

Challenges we address

Business and technology priorities are misaligned

We help to translate business goals into tangible IT priorities and initiatives

Application landscapes lack transparency

Clear landscape assessment using ArchiMate, clarifying the application lifecycle as well as documenting the information flows, ensures the desired insight in the landscape.

Transformation initiatives lack a shared target architecture

Clarifying the target architecture as the result of a transformation also requires the journey to get to this target. Transformation Architecture is a vital deliverable to reach any target state.

How we help

Well established framework

With Lavante, you do not start from scratch. We bring a well-established framework of common principles, standards, architectural governance, processes and ceremonies, artefacts and work products to give you a quick start.

Business capability mapping and analysis

We help to clarify business priorities and strategic importance, current and future maturity. We identify the initiatives needed to mature capabilities as desired.

Enterprise architecture assessments

We investigate and apply industry best practice methods to assess your architecture deliverables and status-quo. We help to mature your Architectural practice by establishing the required governance, help to lift team skills and train / coach teams towards a more mature Architectural Practice.

Application portfolio and technology landscape analysis

Target architecture development

We will jointly go through the journey of defining the desired target architecture, balancing commercial off-the-shelf services versus in-house developed solution components. We evaluate your landscape for appropriate reuse.

Architecture principles and strategic roadmaps

We translate your strategic direction into the Architectural Vision. Business drivers lead to business principles, which are then translated into Architecture principles.

Business and IT alignment

Do you have adequate Business and IT alignment? Establishing the business architecture to formulate what needs to be aligned ensures both speak the same language and reach a better aligned status.

What you receive

Clear architectural direction, improved visibility into enterprise complexity, and actionable guidance for technology investment and transformation.

Enterprise architecture assessments

example illustration SWOT assessment

Illustrative logistics SWOT analysis showing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, with architecture priorities
Example: a logistics company SWOT analysis. View full size

Target and transition architectures

Illustrative logistics architecture evolving from the current state through two transition architectures to the target state, showing operations, applications and information at each stage
Example: evolving a logistics landscape through usable transition states towards a target architecture. View full size

Architecture principles and roadmaps

Strategic direction and business drivers inform business principles and architecture principles, applied through guidance and governance
Illustrative example: translating strategic direction into architecture principles and governance. View full size

How we engage

Architecture assessments, consulting and advisory engagements

  1. Understand the challenge
    • Statement of work
    • Initial review & alignment session
  2. Assess scope and intent
    • Architecture Vision
    • Architecture Definition
    • Strategic intent
    • Business Drivers
  3. Agree on governance, deliverables and timeline
    • Agree and document the How
    • Agree on the what
  4. Complete statement of work and sign agreement
    • Statement of work final
  5. Commence the assignment
    • Complete Architecture Vision
    • Architecture Definition containing Business Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology Architecture, as required

Interim architecture leadership

Whether an organisation needs architectural direction, experienced interim leadership or support with a complex transformation, Lavante provides senior expertise with direct accountability.

Architecture competency development

To assess the maturity of an architect or architecture team, we agree on the scope and the involvement of managers and peers in the review. We ask the architect or team members to complete a set of questions, followed by interviews to assess their competencies against an established architecture maturity assessment framework.

We report the assessment results, recommend next steps and conclude with a coaching session.

Principal-led consulting

Ralf Wassen

Independent Enterprise Architecture expertise across business architecture, integration, transformation and architecture governance.

About Lavante →
Ralf Wassen, Principal Enterprise Architect at Lavante

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