March 7, 2023

New Research: Four Trends You Can’t Miss in 2023

This past week, Aragon Research released two new notes of mine as part of our series on “Four Trends You Can’t Miss in 2023”, including:

Keep your eyes out for more to come, including “Four Trends You Can’t Miss in Cloud Computing, 2023.” But in the meantime, if you are focused on business transformation or EA, these notes are worth a read.

Four Trends You Can’t Miss in Business Transformation

In this note, we explore the trends that are having the biggest impact on business transformation, including economics and competitiveness, emerging technologies, increased availability of data and content, and market confusion. We are finding many organizations are focused on business transformation due to internal and external forces.

In addition, we hear executives all the time saying, “we need to transform the business.” But when we press them on what that means to them, we often get blank stares. They feel like they need to do something, and the market is gravitating toward the term business transformation, so that’s what they think they need.

The key takeaway in this note is that business and IT leaders must really understand the real and created forces that are driving business transformation, and be clear about their strategic vision.

Four Trends You Can’t Miss in Enterprise Architecture

In this note, I challenge the traditional notion of four EA viewpoints (business, information, technology, and solution), and add several new holistic viewpoints that span business, people, process, information, and technology, which includes a security viewpoint, AI viewpoint, and an ecosystem viewpoint. In addition, I highlight several of the economic, social, environmental, and technical trends that have caused this change in the discipline of EA.

The key takeaway in this note is the discipline of EA is not a rigid documentation or framework you have to fill out and put on the shelf. EA must reflect the real trends that are affecting your business, and as a result, must be a holistic discipline that reflects your holistic business (people, process, information, and technology) and business ecosystem (e.g. customers, partners, competitors, regulators, etc.).

Bottom Line

This series of notes is a new format for Aragon Research, and we hope you find it valuable in your planning and execution for 2023. We plan to do this series every year. Please let us know what you think and if you would like other coverage areas.

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