Enterprise Architecture as a Change Management Agent

Enterprise Architecture as a Change Management Agent In a demanding business environment, executives face the need to understand the impact of change in their company and to make decisions that influence processes, services and technology. Enterprise Architecture is the means to describe your business in order to facilitate rapid and valuable impact analysis, enabling performance-oriented change management. Process awareness has become a require- ment for every company for many reasons. Customer Benefits To start with, a common understanding ■ Central source of information that is easily of how the business functions is critical scalable in large organizations to business performance. Until everyone MEGA’s product suite provides a powerful frame- understands how they contribute to the work that supports growth and facilitates broad “value chain”, company performance is information sharing in large organizations. It at risk. Secondly, quality management ensures consistency and the reuse of information and regulatory compliance often makes in such projects like Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, it mandatory. Finally, clarifying how IT mergers and acquisitions, portfolio management, contributes to business is essential to being quality management, project lifecycle support, and flexible and maximizing IT service value. overall enterprise architecture and governance. MEGA International helps executives MEGA enables you to consolidate the results of all establish the Enterprise Architecture business initiatives in one place. approach necessary to manage enterprise ■ Integration of risk and control management, from information in a consistent way. business processes to IT architecture Based on an Enterprise Repository that Controlling operational risks attached to your encompasses both business and IT business processes and IT systems is key to perspectives, MEGA provides a simple and achieving high quality performance and regulatory powerful solution to any project that drives compliance. With MEGA you can globally consider change in your organization by : risks as they affect your processes and IT architecture, easily measure the impact of change, ➔ Reusing the description of your business, and establish and publish clear and accurate including all blueprints, implementation mitigation strategies. maps, measures, and reports ■ Effective support of change ➔ Increasing efficiency through the identifi- You can’t change what you can’t see. By making cation and sharing of best practices within things visible MEGA facilitates change: the result the organization is measurable business value. Using proven, ➔ Reducing risks, through a global assess- demonstrable methodologies, MEGA’s consulting ment and mitigation of operational risks team helps you build a set of organization and project management best practices that use the Enterprise ➔ Expediting project management with the Architecture framework as an effective asset for all impact analysis function and the centrali- of your change management decisions. zation of information in a framework shared by all stakeholders MEGA Enterprise Architecture Solution The MEGA approach to Enterprise Architecture is adapted to your project ENT ER P R I S E ARC H I TE CT U RE requirements. It ensures the MEGA’s solution for Enterprise O BJEC T I V E S G OA L S Architecture is based on our transformation of any business or extensive experience working with IT issue into a concrete solution Fortune 500 companies worldwide. S P ROC E SS & K ORG A N I Z AT I O N that is manageable over the RIS MEGA consulting services provides long term using repository- excellence through the numerous successful SYSTE M S & DATA implementations accomplished globally. LS based modeling software, RO NT governance rules and a CO TE C H N O L O G Y consistent methodology. Based on the implementation of an Enterprise a consistent description across the enterprise. Business & IT Repository, the MEGA Enterprise This enables the understanding of relationships Architecture solution applies to any change between all potential parameters as well as management project within the organization, full-spectrum impact analysis. as well as to corporate governance initiatives, Our consulting approach allows gradual using a four step approach: ➔ 4. Manage Change analysis and optimization of your business and Organize training and communication. IT system operations. Deliverables are gathered ➔ 1. Qualify the project Ensure the consistency of models through into an Enterprise Repository and your team is Determine the project drivers and understand regular audits and coaching, and embed thoroughly trained in how to create, maintain, the stakeholders’ concerns, e.g. Enterprise the use of the business description into your query and analyze your business description. Information Management, Business continuity project lifecycle deliverables and change planning, SOA implementation, among others. management processes. These activities will This approach relies on two main components: This will drive the methodology and the often be organized in an industrial mode, • A Proven Modeling Approach business rules to be observed in order to obtain which means they will be capable of producing MEGA provides a real enterprise asset by a consistent description of the business. a large number of models quickly while describing your business in terms of processes, ensuring consistency and overall quality. people, risks and IT systems. The reflection ➔ 2.