The current crisis accelerates enterprise macro changes and thus a new generation of Enterprise Architecture.
Forrester Research
Henry Peyret
The current crisis tends to accelerate some profound changes in the enterprises to align with the globalization, the IT pervasiveness and the arrival of new generation of employees.
The current crisis affects also the EA programs which first tend to lower IT and business costs with for example a huge emphasis on application scoring to decommission systems and also better justify the value of projects. But some industries like pharmaceuticals and retail banking act as early adopters in this current crisis and demonstrate that EA programs are currently deeply changing their focus toward business architecture, co-design, lean and pragmatism driving EA governance, new metrics which include a measured business agility and finally a “contractualization” trend to accompany the IT department to transform into a more differentiating shared service among business units. These changes announce a new enterprise architecture : EA 2.0.