Adaptive provides expertise, methods and tools to help complex organizations align their capabilities with their strategic intent. One of our key offerings is the Adaptive Top Slice Enterprise Architecture. It is a management consulting service that employs rigorous analysis methods and tools to help executives understand the fundamentals of their organizations and to chart a course for change. It is based on Enterprise Architecture best practices and helps to give high-level insight into and control over the total enterprise.

The result of Top Slice Enterprise Architecture engagements is a dramatic improvement of understanding on how the organization is “wired”. Impacts of contemplated organization changes, mergers and acquisitions, business process improvements and IT consolidation programs can be assessed and updated to the Enterprise Architecture, as well as Strategic Planning.


Migration strategies can be developed which guide change programs. Organization strategy, business process architecture, functional organization, process performance, human capability and IT portfolio are accessible remotely and made visible graphically to everyone involved, including those responsible for strategic and day-to-day decision-making.


Introducing the Adaptive Top Slice Enterprise Architecture offering of services and products helps organizations to:

Identify stakeholders, strategies, products and services
Identify current state processes, organization units, human resources, key performance indicators, information areas, systems, locations, facilities and projects
Identify future state processes, organization units, human resources, key performance indicators, information areas, systems, locations, facilities and projects
Set priorities for process improvements based on strategic intent
Effectively and efficiently understand and manage organization capability and resources
Integrate all enterprise data consistently in a scalable and remotely accessible repository in order to connect and display the instance data of all these concepts to manage the whole organization in an up-to-date and consistent way.