Architecture: The Vanguard of Modernization and Digital Transformation

Companies that are investing in technology architecture and enterprise architect personnel today are creating a strategic advantage and a competitive differentiator for their businesses.

Enterprise architecture represents the vanguard of modernization and digital transformation.

Enterprise architects are fast becoming business friendly and more regularly interfacing with business audiences that matter. Nurtured correctly, this shift can future proof your technology platforms and business, and significantly contribute to the bottom line in a world that is increasingly shaped by technology.

Below are 4 impactful technology trends related to enterprise architecture and architects we are seeing at EQengineered.

1. IT leadership and finance leaders are working to future proof the business. The CIO + CFO are becoming synergistic and collaborating. Conversations are happening in the sunlight to truly understand what it will take financially to support business strategy with technology investment, modernize existing software applications and infrastructure (like the cloud), and accelerate business growth.

2. "Little bang" innovation is being recognized as companies adopt agile practices and vacate the need for a "big bang" moment. Agile is becoming the norm. Successful companies are embracing the notion that incremental improvement through adoption of agile processes across the business yields improvements, and moves the business towards the needed "newness" in methods, ideas, and products.

3. Companies are embracing the science of technology as an imperative, with sanity. Rational, financially driven decisions around enabling technologies like the cloud, or foundational needs related to reengineering technology to orchestrate needed core platform modernization efforts, is occurring. Companies are grounding the change in financial models to reduce risk to the business, establish operational excellence, and spur growth.

4. All customers are becoming first class citizens of technology platforms, internally or externally. EX + CX = HX (employee experience + customer experience = human experience). Architecting technology and experiences that are able to adapt, support, and satisfy an ever changing and fickle human customer is becoming both a strategic imperative, and a matter of survival. Cleaving the front and back end technology stack, and honestly exploring the impediments and how to iteratively improve decaying back end legacy lethargies, are driving productivity.

Firms that are successfully negotiating the needed modernization and technology reengineering have leadership who recognize the need for growth in organizational architecture capacity and understanding across the business. With this shift, enterprise architects are becoming more accountable for solution outcomes and the need to increase technology and software development productivity. They are also driving agile adoption and speed to market to assist the enterprise grow, and mitigate future risks.