Case
Public administration - Business & IT alignment
Environment
Kind en Gezin is a Flemish governmental agency with responsibility for young children and families in Flanders. Its main task is to implement government policy for families with young children in the fields of preventive care, child care services, family support, diversity and children's rights. A large framework contract aimed at defining and evaluating the necessary services to Kind & Gezin and other Flemish Governmental Agencies to articulate and implement their strategic business requirements, by aligning business and IT architectures in new and unique ways.
Solution
Trasys Business and IT architects helped the different agencies ensuring continuous alignment between their business and IT domains, from both strategic and operational perspectives. The business strategy, as defined by the Management, was the driver of both business and IT architecture. Together, business and IT architects from Trasys narrowed the gap between business and IT architecture by identifying business domains and implementing, among others:
Strategy map
Roadmaps
Landscape of business domains
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
BPM, BPA, BPR and Value chains
Application Landscape
Balanced Scorecard
Change Management
Cost-benefit Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Risk Management
Benefits
The implementation of a global Enterprise Architecture supported by a Business-IT alignment strategy delivered measurable results to Flemish Agencies:
Real visibility on business processes and opportunities for business improvement
Better serving citizens, businesses communities and local authorities
Tools for business monitoring and reporting to the Management and the Minister
Increased efficiency of IT projects, so that IT projects are implemented with minimal resources
A better grip on the use and cost of IT
Improving IT portfolio management
Improved interoperability between IT systems