IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Course

Name: IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Alignment Training Course
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Connect enterprise priorities, business capabilities, architecture principles, target states, standards, roadmaps, and investment governance.

IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh, Amsterdam, Munich, Milan, Chicago and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Cairo
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Alignment Training Course is a one-week professional course for IT strategy leaders, enterprise architects, portfolio managers, transformation teams, and business-technology partners, who leave with an IT Strategy and Architecture Alignment Pack. The course connects IT strategy and enterprise architecture, business capability mapping, enterprise architecture principles, current and target state architecture, gaps, standards, governance, and a technology investment roadmap. Agile Leaders Training Center presents the course on aligning strategy, architecture, and technology change.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for translating enterprise priorities into technology direction
Functions responsible for business, data, application, and technology architecture
Leaders responsible for technology portfolios, sequencing, and investment recommendations
Teams responsible for standards, exceptions, architecture decisions, and governance forums
Business-technology partners responsible for capability needs and transformation roadmaps

The course assumes participants contribute to strategy, architecture, portfolios, transformation, or technology decisions and leaves out detailed solution engineering and certification exam preparation.

Departments and Industries

The course supports strategy and architecture decisions across technology-dependent services and transformation portfolios.

CIO offices and technology strategy departments
Enterprise architecture and digital transformation teams
Portfolio, investment, and program governance functions
Banking and insurance technology portfolios
Healthcare systems and digital service functions
Energy, logistics, and industrial modernization teams

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze enterprise goals and translate them into technology outcomes
Build capability maps that expose strategic strengths and gaps
Apply architecture principles to standards and technology choices
Compare current and target states across architecture domains
Prioritize initiatives through dependencies, value, risk, and readiness
Build governance records for roadmaps, exceptions, and decisions

Course Agenda

Day 1: Strategy Context and Technology Outcomes

Enterprise Goal and Technology Alignment Map
Stakeholder Need, Value, Risk, and Constraint Analysis
IT Strategy-on-a-Page and Outcome Measures
COBIT Goal Cascade and Alignment Objective Mapping
Strategy Assumption, Dependency, and Decision Log

Day 2: Capabilities and Current-State Architecture

Business Capability Map and Maturity Heatmap
Value Stream, Service, and Capability Relationship Map
Current Application and Integration Landscape
Data Domain, Ownership, and Information Flow View
Technology Platform, Legacy, and Dependency Assessment

Day 3: Principles and Target-State Design

Enterprise Architecture Principle and Rationale Template
TOGAF Business, Data, Application, and Technology Domain Views
Target State Architecture and Strategic Building Blocks
Open Standard, Reuse, Interoperability, and Portability Decisions
Architecture Gap Analysis and Transition Requirement Register

Day 4: Roadmaps and Architecture Governance

Initiative Dependency and Architecture Transition Map
Technology Investment Roadmap and Sequencing Criteria
Standards Catalog, Technology Radar, and Exception Register
Architecture Decision Record and Traceability Chain
Architecture Board, Review Gate, and Performance Dashboard

Day 5: Strategy and Architecture Practice

Goal Cascade and Capability Mapping Exercise
Current-State Landscape and Gap Analysis Exercise
Architecture Principle and Target-State Exercise
Investment Roadmap and Governance Review Exercise
IT Strategy and Architecture Alignment Pack Capstone Exercise

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to connect strategic choices with architecture evidence and investment decisions.

Suggested activity: translate service-growth priorities into technology outcomes, measures, capabilities, and constraints.
Suggested activity: diagnose duplicated applications, fragmented data, legacy dependencies, and missing platform capabilities.
Suggested activity: compare target-state options against principles, open standards, cost, risk, interoperability, and future change.
Suggested activity: sequence initiatives through dependencies, value, readiness, transition risk, and governance decisions.

FAQs

Who suits IT strategy and enterprise architecture training and what does it assume?

IT strategy and enterprise architecture training suits professionals who shape technology direction, capabilities, target states, portfolios, standards, or roadmaps. It assumes workplace exposure to strategy or technology decisions and does not teach detailed engineering.

How does enterprise architecture differ from solution architecture training?

Enterprise architecture connects organization-wide capabilities, information, applications, technology, standards, target states, and investment roadmaps. Solution architecture focuses on the design and delivery decisions for a particular solution or bounded change.

Why use business capability mapping in IT strategy?

Business capability mapping shows what the enterprise must be able to do independently of its current organization or systems. It helps expose strategic strengths, gaps, duplication, dependencies, and areas requiring technology change.

What are enterprise architecture principles?

Enterprise architecture principles are durable decision guides with a statement, rationale, and implications. They help teams evaluate standards, designs, exceptions, investment choices, data ownership, reuse, interoperability, portability, and legacy change consistently.

What belongs in a technology investment roadmap?

A technology investment roadmap connects outcomes, capabilities, current-state gaps, target states, initiatives, dependencies, sequencing, transition risks, owners, measures, and governance decisions. It explains why change occurs in a particular order.

Conclusion

Participants take an IT Strategy and Architecture Alignment Pack back to work. The pack connects outcomes, capability maps, current-state views, principles, target states, gaps, standards, decision records, initiative sequencing, and governance measures. It changes strategy and architecture from separate discussions into traceable evidence for technology priorities, investment choices, standards, and transformation roadmaps.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Cairo	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Amsterdam	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Munich	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Milan	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Chicago	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Nice	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
New York	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Baku	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,000
Doha	Week 51, 2026 20 – 24 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Lisbon	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 52, 2026 27 – 31 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Rome	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Tbilisi	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,000
Manama	Week 01, 2027 10 – 14 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Vienna	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Muscat	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Lagos	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewIT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Alignment Training Course is a one-week professional course for IT strategy leaders, enterprise architects, portfolio managers, transformation teams, and business-technology partners, who leave with an IT Strategy and Architecture Alignment Pack. The course connects IT strategy and enterprise architecture, b…

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IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Course