If and when you can help people with strategy, architecture and transformation challanges.

In deciding if one can help people improve how they do strategy, architecture and transformation challenges the decisions are:

1. Do they recognise the need for a strategy and architecture - as a platform for informed decision making on transformation and optimisation initiatives. If they don't then point them at the material that explains why and leave them for a year or two.
2. Do they recognise the current document based, and often consultant lead, approaches to strategy and architecture as mechanism for decision making for transformation and optimisation fails. It fails for everyone but the consultants and the perhaps the authors of the documents. If they don't then point them at the material that explains why and leave them for a year or two.
3. Do they recognise that systems architecture and software engineering  methods and modelling (e.g. those aligned detailed modelling e.g. ER, BP)  to strategy and architecture are oriented at wrong things for the wrong people. If they don't then them point at the material that explains why and leave them for a year or two.
4. Do they recognise that what is required are wisdom management solutions where all stakeholders can access information in ways suited to the tasks they perform, so that industry best practice can be supported by task specific solutions that all leverage off a common view of the enterprise are required to make rapid and cost effective progress (or do they want to reinvent things for themselves because at heart they are want-to-be taxonomists, methodologists, architects or developers). If they don't then them point at the material that explains why and leave them for a year or two.
5. If you get here - you can explore with them issues associated the cultural changes in the organisation and look at solutions and methods that support decision making and knowledge accretion.

The bottom line is you can't help people who don't want to be helped - and the 1st they need to make (for themselves) is to recognise there is a problem and they need to do something. See the 12-step programme for treating addiction to failed ways of doing things.

Remember Planck's Principle (not his constant) - "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."