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Today, the government has to rein in a health crisis on the one hand, and has to compensate for its economic impact on the other. The crisis is acting as a catalyst on top of the evolution that the sector is going through, a transformation that should serve to make the respective organisations in the sector proactive, agile machines in which new digital and organisational models play a key role. In the midst of this transformation, the need for vested digital leadership is greater than ever. LoQutus and Vlerick Business School have joined forces to explore the way in which the public sector is experiencing the changes, how it is tackling them, and where the main obstacles lie.

Government bodies are in the midst of a digital transformation. But the design of new solutions often gets no further than merely the technical level. “If government bodies still want to be relevant in five years’ time, they will need the courage to set the bar higher and act as choreographers within their own ecosystem”, says Vlerick Professor Stijn Viaene. But what does it mean to take on the role of a choreographer? That is what we will be investigating with LoQutus over the next two years.

How do enterprise architects re-invent themselves in the era of digital transformation? Based on 13 case studies of Belgian companies the white paper “From Enterprise Architect to Opportunity Architect”, jointly conducted with Loqutus, suggests there are opportunities for enterprise architects who can get to grips with and understand the customer journey.

In an increasingly digital environment Enterprise Architecture is clearly gaining importance. “EA can help organisations to translate their strategy, assess the impact of that strategy and can be a guiding help in making difficult decisions”, explains professor Bjorn Cumps. “Especially for organisations growing in size and complexity, EA can help structure the organisation in order to have a good overview of capabilities, processes, data, systems, technology and how these are all connected.”

“We want to respond to the needs of the market as effectively as possible. And this partnership has enabled us to assess and map out these needs even better,” says Joachim Vanden Brande, CEO of Prime Foundation Partner LoQutus. Our collaboration over the past three years has been such a success that they’ve decided to extend the partnership for a further three years. What has been achieved so far and what lies ahead?

LoQutus, a ten-year-old IT company focusing on how to automate and monitor business processes, recently became a Prime Foundation Partner of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.