Link: https://www.ardoq.com/blog/reducing-costs-ea-success
From The Digital Transformation Blog
Enterprise Architects can have a tough time proving their value to the business. That’s not to say their work is a waste of time, but the typical achievements of an EA department can be hard to translate into outcomes that are meaningful for those outside IT. Visualizing the technology landscape and mapping business capabilities don’t exactly get stakeholders’ pulses racing. But what if you could focus your efforts on just one outcome while achieving a whole host of others, too? Enter reducing costs.
Focusing on reducing costs as a business outcome benefits both the Enterprise Architecture and the organization. It provides a wider goal for EA efforts to coalesce around, while achieving other valuable outcomes in the process. For example, building an accurate picture of the IT landscape is the perfect way to prepare for application rationalization, one of the most impactful ways a business can reduce its IT costs and enable the execution of other strategic initiatives. And that’s just the start.
