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The role of the CIO is changing. CIOs must now live up to the increasingly challenging expectations of helping initiate and scaling digital business. To do this successfully, CIOs need a world-class EA program and confident enterprise architects that can advise them on technology-enabled business.

The modern enterprise architect is a critical advisor to leadership teams in today’s digital world. A focus upon solution delivery alone is not the sole reason for organizations to have enterprise architects today. It's about driving change and disruption through a product-aligned, business-embedded operating model that enables agility and innovation to deliver business outcomes.

• Identify and engage the stakeholders involved in each EA “service.” Create a collaborative way of working and a governance model, and make the value proposition clear to stakeholders.
• Position business architecture as a form of internal management consulting. Help define and shape business and operating models, identify risks and opportunities, and create roadmaps.
• Adopt a business-outcome-driven approach to identify and evaluate emerging technologies and their feasibility and viability in achieving targeted business outcomes.
• Measure and periodically track the business value of your EA discipline to determine its impact on the business.
• Develop the necessary communication, negotiation, influence skills to scale EA's influence, change minds and behaviours of its stakeholders, and drive adoption of EA recommendations.