Business Consulting & Enterprise Architecture
Build the blueprint for change.
Strategy, capabilities, portfolio and governance in one model, from board-level direction to decisions that get delivered.
Intro
Direction before delivery.
A shared blueprint for transformation.
Transformation gets hard when business priorities, applications, data and operating models evolve in different directions.
We combine business consulting with enterprise architecture to turn strategic priorities into architectures, roadmaps and decisions teams can execute.
Diverging
Priorities
Aligned
From ambition to an executable path.
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Business & Technology Strategy
Where to focus, what to change, how to sequence investment, one direction for priorities, technology and transformation programmes.
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Enterprise Architecture
Current landscape, target architecture, and the principles and governance that keep capabilities, applications, data and technology connected as they evolve.
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Transformation & Portfolio Planning
Portfolio analysis, capability mapping and rationalisation that say plainly what to retain, modernise, replace or retire, and in what order.
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Enterprise Solutions
Core platforms designed around business processes rather than technology constraints, with solution architecture attached to delivery.
Consulting and
architecture at work.
Juan Pablo Palomares, Global Capability Lead, on driving business through enterprise solutions.
Consulting that ends in a decision,
not a document.
Questions we help leadership answer
Which business capabilities should our technology spend follow?
Where is cost locked up in duplicated systems?
What do we modernise first, and what can wait?
Which processes should be redesigned before they are automated?
What should be standard across the group, and what stays local?
Who owns the decision when business and IT disagree?
We answer these with evidence from your own landscape, then make the answers stick through governance and delivery.
One direction.
Multiple capabilities.
Consulting and architecture give Linkroad’s specialist teams a shared context, they do not gate them. Engage us at any point.
Alignment layer
Business Consulting & Enterprise Architecture
Holds direction, priorities and architecture together while the rest is delivered.
Data & AI
Data foundations, platforms and AI capabilities that execute the vision.
Application Modernization
Legacy applications turned into modern software architectures.
Decision Intelligence
Better operational decisions through AI, optimisation and analytics.
Total Experience
Strategy translated into customer, employee and digital experience.
From board-level priorities to implementation-level architecture, the same logic stays connected.
Why Linkroad
Strategy connected to execution.
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One conversation
Business priorities and the architecture decisions they require, decided in the same room.
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Grounded in delivery
Recommendations come from teams who design, build, modernise and operate enterprise technology daily.
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Specialists, connected
Access to specialised companies across the group, under one transformation direction.
Enterprise architecture
How this holds a year later
Consulting settles what should change. Enterprise architecture is what keeps that decision true once delivery starts: one governed view of capabilities, applications, data and processes that every team plans against.
We work with the frameworks and platforms you already own, and say so when a new one is not worth buying.
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Governance first
Principles and decision rights agreed once, so later choices are not relitigated.
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One shared model
Capabilities mapped to the systems and processes that support them, in a single current view.
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Portfolio decisions
Retain, consolidate, retire or modernise, with the reasoning attached to each call.
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Kept alive
KPI dashboards and housekeeping, so the model never goes stale after handover.
Frameworks and platforms
TOGAF
ArchiMate
BIAN
IT4IT
SAP LeanIX
SAP Signavio
Success stories
Where we impact
Use case
Application Portfolio Management with LeanIX
A European banking group brought 700+ applications, integrations and technology components under one governed portfolio, with SAP LeanIX as the platform.
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Use case
Enterprise architecture for the justice sector
A public justice organisation built its first governed architecture practice, giving leadership a single view to plan modernisation against.
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Use case
LeanIX and Signavio integration in pharma
A global pharmaceutical company connected process governance and enterprise architecture across three corporate platforms, maintained by its own teams.
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A loop, not a line
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UNDERSTAND
Priorities, capabilities, landscape, constraints.
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DESIGN
Operating models, architectures, principles, scenarios.
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DECIDE
Investments, platforms, sequence.
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EXECUTE
Roadmap wired to the capabilities that deliver it.
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EVOLVE
Measure, adapt, re-enter wherever needed.
Transformation, easier to navigate.
Clearer technology investment decisions
One view of the current and target landscape
Business and technology teams aligned
Less duplication and unnecessary complexity
Roadmaps tied to business priorities
Architecture that keeps evolving
Know where you want to go.
Build the architecture to get there.
Defining a strategy, redesigning an architecture, or deciding what to modernise next, we turn complexity into a clear path forward.
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