Transforming Enterprise Architecture to help achieve sustainability targets

In this section, we will hear from André Christ, CEO and cofounder of LeanIX, on how to achieve sustainability targets with EA.

Turning a sustainability strategy into action with Enterprise Architecture

Over the last 10 years, EAs have increasingly played a role in driving the digital transformation agenda. Their holistic view of the organization, supported by well-developed methodologies and comprehensive access to IT and business portfolio data, puts them in an ideal position to translate a business strategy into execution. Among other things, this perspective allows them to uncover gaps in the required business and IT capabilities and design the roadmaps required to close these gaps.

So far, however, EAs have played a marginal role when it comes to helping companies achieve their sustainability goals. This is the case even though 52% of survey respondents (LeanIX 2022) state that their IT...