Increasingly, companies are putting forth the effort to plan for the future of IT, innovation, and business growth by leveraging on enterprise architecture (EA). Yet, a Gartner survey finds that “77% of respondents were either restarting or renewing EA efforts”. This trend confirms that many enterprise architects are still struggling with their EA programs and experiencing difficulties in delivering business value. Join our meetup session as we discuss how enterprise architects can take proactive steps to increase influence throughout the organization and evolve into a more strategic role. Key takeaways include: * Positioning EA at the heart of the organization by demonstrating tangible results to stakeholders, * How to make EA a key business player, * Ways to form a cooperative relationship with other corporate strategic functions by leveraging technology, * Retaining executive sponsorship through outcome-driven enterprise architecture. Who should attend? This meetup is aimed at enterprise architects and aspiring EA’s to exchange thoughts on enterprise architecture. Most of the audience will be senior business and IT professionals including: * CIOs * Enterprise Architects * Business Architects * Strategic Planners * IT Portfolio Managers