Navigating Disruption: How a Food and Beverage Giant Transformed Its Architecture with Strategic Partnerships
In a world of shifting consumer preferences, climate change concerns, and supply chain disruptions, the food and beverage industry is under immense pressure. One such industry leader, a North American company with an impressive $8.7 billion in revenue, recognized that to stay ahead of the curve, they needed a clear digital strategy and a strong enterprise architecture vision.
However, like many organizations, this company found itself struggling to execute its enterprise architecture vision. The challenges were significant: transient architecture teams led to a lack of continuity, data was scattered across silos, and the recent M&A integration left their technology landscape unclear and duplicative. The company needed a partner to help them navigate this complex landscape and turn their vision into reality.
The Challenge: A Struggle to Realize the Enterprise Architecture Vision
The organization’s leadership knew they needed to transform their IT operating model, but they faced several roadblocks. With a transient architecture team, corporate knowledge was leaking, and key learnings were being lost. Moreover, the post-M&A integration created confusion, as systems and data were duplicated with no clear ownership.
The biggest hurdle was the lack of architectural continuity. High architect turnover meant that the company struggled to maintain a coherent enterprise architecture strategy. Disparate datasets across the organization added to the complexity, making it difficult to reconcile and leverage the data effectively.
A Strategic Partnership with Capsifi Evolve & Amplify
Realizing the need for expertise, the company partnered with Capsifi and Evolve & Amplify, a global strategy and business design consultancy, leveraging innovative technologies to assist the world’s leading government, industry and purpose-led organizations. This collaboration aimed to align teams around a common understanding of architecture value, leveraging Capsifi’s platform as a single source of truth for enteprise architecture.
Capsifi and Evolve & Amplify adopted a structured approach, focusing on stakeholder engagement across the organization. They engaged with the C-Suite, established cross-silo forums to encourage dialogue, and positioned enterprise architecture as a value enabler rather than just a compliance activity.
Their strategy was simple yet effective: marry practice with the right tools, cast a wide net to understand business needs, and pitch a value-centric roadmap. This approach allowed the organization to move from a state of confusion to clarity, with a clear path forward.
Without Capsifi’s structure, the customer wouldn’t have been able to identify practice gaps as easily or completely as they did. As a result, Evolve & Amplify has been able to work closely with the customer to provide targeted and immersive architecture coaching to raise their levels of maturity.
Krishan Jogia, Managing Director, Evolve & Amplify
The Results: Efficiency, Credibility, and Growth
The results of this partnership were transformative. Thanks to Capsifi’s structured approach, the company was able to identify practice gaps that had previously gone unnoticed. This led to a targeted and immersive architecture coaching experience provided by Evolve & Amplify, helping the company raise its maturity levels.
One of the most significant outcomes was the increase in buy-in for the importance of architecture. Senior leader engagement skyrocketed by 80%, with leaders outside the enterprise architecture practice stepping up as Change Champions. Capsifi’s platform became the single source of truth for the organization’s enterprise architecture, ensuring that all contributors were aligned and working from the same data.
By establishing a clear and executable path to architecture maturity, the organization insulated itself from the challenges of a transient enterprise architecture team. With a predictable architecture in place, the company could finally see the fruits of their efforts, moving confidently into the future.
This success story illustrates the power of strategic partnerships and the importance of a structured approach to enterprise architecture. With the right tools and expertise, even the most complex challenges can be overcome, enabling organizations to not just survive but thrive in a rapidly changing world.
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