QuestionQ167

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You are employed as an Enterprise Architect at a technology company. The company has multiple subsidiary companies involved in mobile, online shopping, cloud computing services, and a social media platform. The company has expanded rapidly and claims to be adding 20 million new users a month.

Senior leadership within the company is concerned about the company’s ability to address the opportunities around artificial intelligence (AI). They are worried that the business will be at a competitive disadvantage unless significant changes are made. Most senior leaders believe that adopting AI will enable operations to become more efficient, and that it is an opportunity to create entirely new business models.

The company has an established Enterprise Architecture (EA) program based on the TOGAF standard, jointly sponsored by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). In your role as an Enterprise Architect within the EA team, you work closely with the business stakeholders in the company as well as the sponsors.

The CEO has a plan to reorganize its subsidiaries around AI. An EA project has been approved to support the reorganization. A strategic architecture has been created and approved. It includes an Architecture Vision and high-level definitions of the domain architectures. This lays out an ambitious three-year plan and covers three distinct transformations to implement the reorganization.

The sponsors have read reports stating that up to 70% of companies are failing at digital and artificial intelligence transformation. They have made it clear that, before approval of the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team needs to assess and mitigate the risks associated with the reorganization. They want assurance that the reorganization will succeed and deliver the promised efficiencies and opportunities for the business.

You have been asked by the EA team leader to recommend an approach that addresses the sponsors’ request.

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

Explanation

TOGAF implementation and migration planning assesses organizational readiness for change to identify, classify, and mitigate transformation risks. It also identifies dependencies among gaps and work packages, incorporates improvement actions into the Implementation and Migration Plan, and evaluates each transformation’s business value, effort, and risk so migration work can be prioritized appropriately.

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