Digital transformation, innovation, and buyer obsession prime companies’ strategic agendas. Enterprise structure (EA) groups should allow these objectives with the correct know-how roadmap and with inner working fashions that may assist enterprises attain their objectives. EA applications have left behind their outdated function of centralized and largely disengaged planning and have moved pragmatically into making the imaginative and prescient actual with a community of embedded hands-on architects.
How do I do know EA groups are working this fashion? The Forrester/InfoWorld 2018 Enterprise Architecture Award winners confirmed how EA performed main roles of their corporations’ digital transformation efforts and had spectacular outcomes. Leadership, collaboration, enterprise smarts, tech smarts, and an agile working mannequin are the hallmarks of at present’s high-impact EA groups.
Each yr, Forrester and InfoWorld spotlight the EA applications which have made a major influence on their organizations—embracing the alternatives for serving to their enterprise be customer-led, insights-driven, quick, and related. We are actually accepting nominations for the 2019 Enterprise Architecture Awards.
If you have got a narrative to inform, please submit it to the Forrester/InfoWorld 2019 Enterprise Architecture Awards. Describe how you’re serving to your agency succeed at its technique, resembling:
- You helped your group turn out to be an insights-driven enterprise.
- You guided the event and execution of a digital transformation technique.
- You helped your agency embrace agile strategies and scaled these strategies to the enterprise.
- Your group has cracked the nut of measuring EA’s contribution and worth.
- Or every other method you helped your group to achieve success.
Want some inspiration? Read about earlier Enterprise Architecture Awards winners:
As with the earlier Enterprise Architecture Awards, what we search for and the way we choose hasn’t modified:
- We’re in search of submissions about an EA program—about what your EA program did, not a couple of venture that you just had been peripherally concerned with.
- You ought to be capable of level to concrete influence and advantages.
- The judges for this yr’s winners are all from earlier years’ winners, so your submission must persuade your friends that it reveals influence and gives a mannequin for different EA applications.
Submit your nomination by mailing your entry as a Word doc of three,000 phrases or fewer to Gene Leganza at gleganza@forrester.com. Please use the phrase “Forrester / InfoWorld EA Awards” within the topic line. We will ship an acknowledgement inside two enterprise days.
Be certain to incorporate:
- contact data
- a really transient description of your agency or group.
- a quick description of the issue you had been attempting to resolve.
- an outline of what you probably did to handle the issue.
- an outline of your outcomes.
- a quick overview of your EA program:
- how lengthy it has been in existence
- its construction: federated, centralized, distributed, and so forth.
- approximate variety of architects by function in central and distributed positions related to this system
Submissions shut on June 28, 2019. We’ll notify semifinalists by August 1. At that point, we’ll ask for extra data. We’ll announce winners on Sept 18.
