ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE WORST STRUCTURAL Patterbn

How Enterprise Architecture Gets Diluted

This infographic says it all and highlights one of the biggest challenges to having an effective Enterprise Architecture discipline within an organization

its bigger than ‘classics’ like…

• “EA reports in under the Chief Technology Officer”
• “We do not have an EA function as we have a Chief Digital Officer”
• “When you say EA do you mean the solution architecture for our enterprise applications”

See also this older post where I was trying to come to terms with this as EA functions started to be moved all over the place thanks to a whole new set of Cxx roles becoming popular and diluting EA like Chief Digital Officer, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Customer Success Champion, Head of Transformation etc