QuestionQ100

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You are serving as Chief Enterprise Architect at a large Internet company. The company has many divisions, ranging from cloud to logistics. It has expanded rapidly, growing from an initial business selling physical books and media to a broad set of services that includes an online marketplace, live-streaming, eBooks, and cloud services.

Managing the many divisions has become difficult. Recent high-profile projects have exceeded budget and delivered less than expected, harming the company's reputation and negatively affecting its share price. There is a broadly held view within executive management that the organization structure has played a significant role in these project failures.

The company has an established Enterprise Architecture program based on the TOGAF standard, jointly sponsored by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CEO has decided that the company must reorganize its divisions around artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on automation. The CEO has worked with the Enterprise Architects to develop a strategic architecture for the reorganization, including an Architecture Vision and definitions for the four domain architectures. This describes an ambitious vision for the company's future over a three-year period. It includes a set of work packages and three distinct transformations.

The CIO has stated clearly that, before the detailed Implementation and Migration plan can be approved, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has heard concerns from key stakeholders across the company that the proposed reorganization may be too ambitious, and there is doubt about whether it can deliver enough value to justify the risks.

You have been asked to recommend an approach that will address these concerns.

Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

Explanation

A Business Transformation Readiness Assessment evaluates an organization’s ability to undergo change, identifies and classifies transformation risks, and defines mitigation or improvement actions for the Implementation and Migration Plan. Planning should also account for dependencies among gaps and work packages and assess each transformation’s business value, effort, and risk so that the transformation can be prioritized and sequenced appropriately.

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