Enterprise architecture that survives contact with the organisation.
Independent advisory for organisations whose target operating model has to work in practice, not just on the slide.
FEDERAL, EUROPEAN AND ENTERPRISE CLIENTS
What the practice covers
Five ways the work gets used, from first diagnosis to the governance that keeps a target architecture from drifting.
Enterprise Architecture
Target architectures, capability maps and technology roadmaps grounded in how the organisation actually runs.
Digital Transformation Advisory
Turning a transformation ambition into a sequenced, fundable programme of work.
Target Operating Model Design
Aligning structure, process and technology so the model holds once the consultants leave.
Architecture Governance
Setting up the review board, standards and decision rights an architecture practice needs to stick.
Technology & Vendor Due Diligence
Independent assessment of platforms, vendors and build-versus-buy decisions before the contract is signed.
How the work runs
Four stages, repeated at whatever scale the engagement needs.
Diagnose
Run a tailored, fully automated audit with our EA Assessment App (in development), reaching people across the organisation, not only IT and management.
Design
Draft the target architecture and the paths that could realistically get there.
Decide
Bring the trade-offs to the table so the organisation chooses with eyes open.
Deliver
Stay through execution long enough for the model to become how things actually work.
Architecture for the AI shift
AI changes what the organisation runs on and what the architecture has to account for. Both get addressed, not just one.
Getting the organisation ready
Before a model gets deployed, the data, integration and governance layers underneath it need to hold. We assess where the current architecture would break under AI workloads and sequence the fixes so adoption doesn't outrun the foundation.
AI inside the practice itself
Capability maps, technology roadmaps and target operating models now have to account for AI as a first-class component, with its own risk, governance and lifecycle — not a bolt-on system retrofitted after the pilot.
Where this fits
Most of the work sits in environments where architecture decisions carry regulatory, political or operational weight.
Federal & public-sector institutions
EU & international institutions
Utilities & infrastructure
HR & professional services
Industrial & FMCG
About the practice
DigitalStrategyGurus is a team of enterprise architects working across Europe. Every architect on the team brings 15+ years of practice on architecture that has to survive procurement, politics and production, not just a steering committee.
What we offer is exactly that: experience and expertise, applied directly, not delegated down to a junior bench.
Three offices carry the work: Belgium, Spain and Estonia, covering federal, EU and enterprise clients across the continent.