Make better strategic decisions with enterprise architecture
Practical Enterprise Architecture
Turning complex business and technology landscapes into clear decisions and measurable outcomes.
Sound familiar?
- Looking to reduce IT costs by simplifying your application landscape? Application Rationalization →
- Want to understand how your systems, data, and processes fit together? Enterprise Architecture →
- Want a clear view of your business and technology ecosystem? Business Capability Modelling →
- Want to know the impact of change before you make it? Integration Mapping →
- Struggling with scattered documentation, no single source of truth, and no holistic view of how it all connects? Tool Training and Implementation →
- Need to scope an answer to a specific business question, demonstrate value, or alleviate a pain point? Get in touch →
You've come to the right place.
At Broe Consulting, I help organizations understand, simplify, and improve their enterprise architecture — turning complexity into clarity so you can make better decisions with confidence.
About Jonas Broe
Senior Enterprise Architecture Consultant
I've worked with hundreds of organizations across industries, sizes, and levels of EA maturity—helping them establish architecture practices, navigate complex transformations, and turn complexity into clarity.
Whether you are building an EA capability, rationalizing your application landscape, implementing Ardoq, or need an experienced Enterprise Architect to support a transformation, I bring practical expertise tailored to your needs.
My experience spans Enterprise Architecture and related disciplines, supporting organizations as a trusted advisor, implementation lead, trainer, and strategic sparring partner. I help teams gain visibility, reduce complexity, and make informed decisions that maximize the value of technology investments.
Enterprise Architecture should create clarity, not complexity. By connecting business and technology perspectives, I help organizations build a shared understanding, improve collaboration, and make better decisions that deliver measurable business value.
Real engagements, real outcomes
Automated Privacy & Compliance Governance Large Investment Bank · Financial Services Read more Read less
Impact: Reduced audit effort by transforming a manual privacy assessment process into a structured, automated capability.
The bank managed application privacy assessments through Excel-based processes requiring significant manual effort. Information was fragmented, there was no central overview, and audit preparation required extensive data gathering.
Designed and implemented a structured assessment workflow with automated questionnaires, reporting, and dashboards to manage privacy assessments across the application portfolio.
The bank established a central, continuously updated view of privacy assessments, providing auditors with immediate insights while reducing manual administration and improving governance.
Application Governance & Shadow IT Reduction Leading Engineering & Architectural Consultancy Group · Northern Europe Read more Read less
Impact: Created control over application demand, technology spend, and architectural governance.
The organisation had limited control over new application requests, resulting in shadow IT, unclear costs, and inconsistent technology decisions.
Established an EA-driven application intake and governance process, ensuring all new requests followed a structured review. Defined decision criteria to approve, reject, or request more information based on business value, risk, and architectural alignment.
The organisation gained transparency and control over application decisions, reduced shadow IT, improved cost management, and strengthened trust between EA and business stakeholders.
Building an Enterprise Architecture Capability International E-commerce Company Read more Read less
Impact: Established an EA foundation and demonstrated measurable value within four weeks.
The company had no established Enterprise Architecture practice. Architecture information was scattered across teams, application ownership was unclear, and there was limited visibility into technology costs, dependencies, and risks.
Built the foundation for an EA practice, including the operating model, repository structure, governance approach, and initial application landscape.
Within four weeks, the organisation had a structured EA capability and could demonstrate tangible value to key stakeholders through improved transparency, ownership, and decision support.
Certified, trained, and formally educated in EA
What I do
Engagements range from a single workshop to a standing advisory retainer. Pick a starting point below, or get in touch and we'll scope something new.
Core enterprise architecture
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Application Portfolio ManagementConnecting applications, business capabilities, ownership, costs, and lifecycle information to understand your current landscape and plan future change.
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Application RationalizationIdentifying redundant, overlapping, or obsolete applications and building the case to consolidate, retire, or replace them.
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Business Capability ModellingUnderstanding what your organization does, and modelling its capabilities to align strategy, investment, and management decisions.
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Cloud MigrationMapping applications, dependencies, and readiness to plan and execute cloud transitions with confidence.
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Data LineageVisualizing data flows, dependencies, and ownership to improve transparency, governance, and confidence in your information landscape.
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Enterprise ArchitectureTurning complex business and technology landscapes into clear insights for better decisions.
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Integration MappingVisualizing your application ecosystem, dependencies, and the impact of change.
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IT Contract OptimizationReviewing vendor and licensing contracts against actual usage to cut redundant spend and strengthen renewal negotiations.
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IT Cost ManagementUnderstanding where technology spend goes and identifying opportunities to optimize cost and value.
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Process MappingDocumenting how work gets done and connecting processes to the applications, data, and teams that enable them.
Tooling & enablement
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EA Tool DemoA live walkthrough of Ardoq — from demo, to proof of concept, to your new EA tool in full use.
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Tool Training and ImplementationHands-on training plus implementation support, setting up your organization's connected, always-current source of truth. I work primarily with Ardoq, the EA tool I know best and am certified in.
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EA Health CheckA comprehensive health check of your estate — documented, with clear recommendations and direction aligned to best practices.
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EA Workshops for BeginnersShort, practical sessions that give non-architects enough EA literacy to work with the practice, not around it.
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Getting Started with EAA structured path for organizations standing up enterprise architecture for the first time.
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Ongoing ConsultancyA standing arrangement for advice, reviews, and course-correction as your architecture and Ardoq setup evolve.
AI, governance & continuity
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AI / GDPR / DPIA AssessmentAssessing AI initiatives and data flows against GDPR obligations, including data protection impact assessments.
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AI4EA — AI-Ready Enterprise ArchitectureBuilding an Enterprise Architecture that both people and AI can reason about — structured and connected enough to support AI-assisted analysis and decision-making.
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GovernanceEstablishing decision rights, standards, and review processes so architecture decisions are followed through, not quietly ignored.
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MaintenanceKeeping your architecture model current as systems, teams, and priorities change, so it stays a tool people actually trust.
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Your EA Left. What Do You Do?Interim architecture cover that keeps models, roadmaps, and decisions moving while you find a permanent hire.
Change & growth
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Digital TransformationTranslating a transformation ambition into an architecture roadmap that IT and the business can both execute against.
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Mergers & AcquisitionsArchitecture due diligence and integration planning for the application and data landscape across a deal.
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Project ManagementRunning delivery for architecture-heavy initiatives where technical judgment and project discipline both matter.
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Strategy to ExecutionAn independent, senior sounding board for architecture and technology decisions at leadership level.
From the field
Notes on enterprise architecture, EA tools, and the practical side of getting this work done.
Your EA Left. Now What?
When the person holding your architecture knowledge walks out the door, the models don't stop needing updates. Here's how to keep things running until you hire.
Read more →Why Most EA Programs Fail in Year One
It's rarely the framework. Most first-year EA programs collapse under their own documentation before they ever influence a decision.
Read more →Getting EA Tools Right: Five Lessons From Real Implementations
An EA tool is only as useful as the model you build in it. Five things I'd tell any team starting their first workspace.
Read more →Let's discuss your architecture.
Whether you're defining a target architecture, reducing application complexity, implementing Ardoq, or need interim Enterprise Architecture leadership, let's find the right way forward.