Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Purpose of the Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Why Use the Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Stakeholder Engagement Workshop Service Outline
Stakeholder Engagement Workshop Deliverables
Configuration Options for Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Purpose of the Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Stakeholder engagement is the foundation of good architecture.
Stakeholder engagement is usually discussed as stakeholder management. All too often, that management is delivered as stakeholder manipulation. When stakeholders are being manipulated, the preferences of the sponsor or the EA Team are being sold.
The purpose of the stakeholder engagement workshop is to help an EA Team:
- develop a stakeholder map
- identify the viewpoints required
- develop a communications plan
- develop an engagement plan
This workshop needs participants open to a new understanding of stakeholders, motivations, and context.
Why Use the Stakeholder Engagement Workshop?
Workshops balance training and consulting. They use experienced consultants using a strong method to quickly achieve powerful results.
You get useful enterprise architecture and your EA Team's skills, method, and technique are developed.
Your EA Team will gain:
- skills to identify stakeholders, influencers, and subject matter experts
- approach to identify stakeholder concerns
- techniques to confirm direction, including the ask, performance expectations, constraints and risk appetite
- understanding of when to engage to select between architecture alternatives and perform trade-off
Stakeholder Engagement Service Outline
Workshop Knowledge Required
In order to complete the Enterprise Architecture Stakeholder Engagement workshop starts with a gathering a broad set of knowledge is required.
| Knowledge Required |
Activity |
| EA Context | Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: where in the Decision Cycle does the EA Team work |
| Business Operations | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Determine:
Critical knowledge: ability to tell bad news |
| Business Context | External Assessment & Interview
Determine business position & ecosystem Critical knowledge: is there a 'burning platform' |
| Business Objectives for Architecture Project | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Determine type of Architecture Project. Support for Strategy, Portfolio, Project, or Solution Delivery Determine
Critical knowledge: Performance expectations and the initial conception of the deficiency |
| Problem Statement | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Identify
Critical knowledge: why the architects are in-the-room |
| Alignment with Other Frameworks | Participant Experience & Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: Normal approach to change and execution |
| Capacity to Execute |
Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: strength of implementation governance |
Workshop Activity
Using the knowledge gathered the workshop activity will create the deliverables and develop skill and experience in your EA team.
| Activity |
Outcome |
| Interview | Interview with EA Team leader and 1-2 recommended leaders in the organization |
| Interactive Workshop |
|
| Deliverables Preparation |
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| Deliverable Completion |
Joint activity to document stakeholder map and viewpoint library |
| Skill Development | Based on configuration choices |
Stakeholder Engagement Deliverables
The formal workshop deliverables are the responsibility of our customer's EA Team. We follow this approach to ensure your EA Team is developing their skills. Conexiam will facilitate their development.
The 1-day workshop will have less formal deliverables.
| Deliverable | Activity |
| Problem Statement | Architecture problem statement including:
|
| Stakeholder Map | Key Stakeholder Map including:
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| Viewpoint Library | Viewpoint Library for key Stakeholder/Concerns. Includes:
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| Critical Decision Model | Simplified decision tree to highlight
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| Engagement Plan | Alignment of key decisions and stakeholder map |
| Governance Framework | Simplified governance framework outlining architecture project decision model and controls |
| EA Process Alignment | Alignment of key decisions and creation of supporting knowledge by EA team |
Stakeholder Engagement Workshop Configuration
Configuration Options:
- Selection between two formats
- 1 day - workshop, deliverables created to whiteboard / outline level, joint analysis and conclusion
- 3 day - joint preparation, instruction of method and analysis, deliverables created to completion, joint analysis and conclusion
- Deliverable or skill development priority
- Delivery model - remote or on-site
Conexiam Enterprise Architecture Consulting Experience
Conexiam has a small, dedicated team. We deliver transformative enterprise architecture around the globe in many industries. We develop strong EA Teams.
Workshops are packaged services. Work we regularly do in more complex consulting engagement. We simply put together the standard approach and take advantage of our ability to engage in a new context and leverage our method, tools, and experience.
We use a consistent approach, Navigate. Navigate is Conexiam's body of enterprise architecture intellectual property.
Our approach, tools, and method are openly available. We are so confident our method is best-in-class that we let our peers review it. The core of the TOGAF Standard guidance reflects our industry-best-practice approach and toolkit.
Our approach to developing enterprise architecture is the Practitioners' Guide to Delivering Enterprise Architecture.
Our approach to developing Enterprise Architecture Teams is the Leader's Guide to Developing EA Teams.
Our approach to enterprise architecture governance is the Governor's Guide in the TOGAF Library.
Our approach to executing a Digital Transformation is the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation. The government of China is adopting the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation as a standard.
We give away our method. Everything we own is freely available through a Creative Commons license. Take it, change it, distribute it.
If you are considering Conexiam’s services, our philosophy, tools, method, and approach are available
Reach an informed conclusion
We think the choice is obvious
Next Steps Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
The next step is contacting Conexiam Consulting sales.
We will ask about the scope of the initiative your architecture project will support. We'll ask about the size of the EA team you want involved and their experience. Last we'll ask the configuration questions.
Assuming we don't need to arrange work permits, we can normally deliver the Stakeholder Engagement workshop within six weeks.
You can expect to pay $25,000 or 45,000 for a Stakeholder Engagement Workshop. Onsite will run 50% more.
The Stakeholder Engagement Workshop takes a couple of days and sets you up for success.
We would love to hear from you
sales@conexiam.com
Are you looking for help on a transformation project?
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We'll either extend the skill and experience of your team or take the entire project.
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We follow a deliberate process. We will improve individual skills, your method, your engagement with stakeholders and help you guide effective change.
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