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Nexinc EA Consulting

Service Detail

EA Roadmapping & Transformation

Turning target architectures into reality requires more than a nice diagram. Nexinc helps you define transition architectures, waves, and initiatives that your organization can actually deliver — with clear value per step.

Who this is for

CIOs, enterprise architects, and programme leaders who have initial future-state ideas but need a pragmatic, sequenced roadmap that business and IT can align on and fund.

Typical triggers

  • • Multiple parallel initiatives with no single story.
  • • Big-picture “to-be” slides, but no agreement on what happens first.
  • • Transformation funding requests that are hard to justify or compare.

Engagement length

Roadmapping engagements are typically 6–8 weeks, depending on the number of domains, stakeholders, and how mature your current architecture work is.

What we do in this engagement

  • • Clarify business outcomes and constraints — what must change, by when, and with which non-negotiables (regulatory, market, technology).
  • • Turn target architectures into transition architectures that reflect realistic intermediate states across applications, data, integration, and operating model.
  • • Identify initiatives and dependencies: programmes, projects, and enablers required to move between these states.
  • • Group work into waves or releases, balancing value, risk, and capacity — including quick wins that build momentum.
  • • Align with portfolio management and finance so that roadmap steps map to budget lines and investment cases.
  • • Create governance touchpoints (checkpoints, decision boards, metrics) to keep roadmap and execution in sync.

What you get as concrete outputs

  • • A narrative “from–to” story that explains clearly how today’s landscape evolves into the target state over time.
  • • 1–3 transition architecture views per domain (current, intermediate, target) with key changes highlighted.
  • • A multi-year roadmap with waves, initiatives, and dependencies, aligned to business priorities.
  • • A prioritization backlog (epics/initiatives) that can feed your portfolio management or agile tooling.
  • • A compact exec pack that frames options, trade-offs, and recommended sequencing.
  • • Suggested governance model to keep roadmaps, architecture, and delivery joined up.

Outcomes you can expect

Shared transformation story

Business and IT leaders align on a single, understandable plan rather than competing project lists and slide decks.

Invest where it matters

Funding and capacity are focused on the moves that actually unlock value or reduce major risk, not just the loudest requests.

Reduced change fatigue

Work is sequenced to respect dependencies and business readiness, limiting rework and helping teams see progress at each wave.

How we typically work with you

  1. 1. Discover & align. We gather existing strategies, roadmaps, and architecture views, and run a focused set of workshops to agree goals, constraints, and scope.
  2. 2. Shape transition states. We define practical transition architectures and outline the initiatives and enablers required to move between them.
  3. 3. Sequence & prioritize. Together we cluster work into waves and determine what should come first, based on value, risk, and capacity.
  4. 4. Finalise & handover. We refine the roadmap, create the exec narrative, and connect it into your portfolio / delivery governance.

Discuss your transformation roadmap

In a 45-minute call we’ll review where you are today, what roadmaps already exist, and how we could help you turn them into a clear, deliverable plan.

Schedule a Discovery Call

Or email us at info@nexinc.consulting.