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Japan Enterprise Architecture Function

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A global luxury group needed to establish an Enterprise Architecture function at country level in Japan, covering several Maisons and operating entities within the group.

Japan represented a highly specific operating environment. Customer expectations were among the most demanding in the world: local digital experiences required careful cultural adaptation, and the reuse of global applications or features was not straightforward. In many cases, local development was necessary because customer interaction, service quality, operational detail and the level of precision expected in Japan required solutions that generic global platforms could not fully provide.

Business culture research consistently confirms that Japanese organizations operate under deeply structured hierarchical norms, where the ringi system of consensus-based approval, strong formalization of roles and meticulous documentation standards shape how decisions are made and information flows.

At the same time, the group needed stronger intra-group architectural visibility. Before the engagement, there was almost no consolidated Enterprise Architecture view across the different entities operating in Japan. The architecture landscape was opaque, ownership was unclear and no common reference model existed at country level.

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