Enterprise Architecture and ROI: The Problem with EA Frameworks

Link: https://www.ardoq.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-roi

From The Digital Transformation Blog

The eternal conundrum in Enterprise Architecture (EA) is why businesses struggle to get tangible value. From the outset, EA promises to be the closest thing to a Holy Grail for the modern digital enterprise. Yet Gartner found that only half of companies succeeded on their first attempt at implementation. A meager 16% of all companies surveyed actually gained measurable business value from their EA practice. Furthermore, EA teams often find it challenging to present Enterprise Architecture and ROI on EA projects in a compelling way to the rest of the organization.

To understand this EA value paradox, scrutiny should be turned to the foundational frameworks and methodologies of the industry as a whole as well as a vast majority of supporting tooling.