Following the trail of links from a starting-point provided by David
Gurteen’s knowledge-management newsletter brought me to a
collective of IT-related types in Sweden (I think?) who post to a
blog called The Content Economy.
Very much worth reading, from a ‘real enterprise architecture’
perspective: they’ve clearly been thinking along the same sort of
lines, although their starting-point has been somewhat different
from mine. Some examples:
- Enterprise 2.0 and the shrinking IT department – “there really are no IT projects, only business projects with more or less IT involved. Even an upgrade of a mail server is done for some business reason. In such a reality, IT experts that lack a business mindset do not function very well. Nor does
an enterprise that relies on these persons to make or heavily influence their decisions about IT.” - The Value of Architecture– “The value of Enterprise Architecture is zero, if you have an enterprise that exists in a complete static environment, without any need for improvement”; “Enterprise Architecture is a vehicle for risk
mitigation”; “Enterprise architecture is how to describe the situation today, how it will look tomorrow and how we will get there in a controlled way”. - What is Enterprise Architecture?³²⁸ – “Architecture is the art of matching requirements with constraints in complex situations”.
So much good stuff there that probably the simplest approach is to
trawl through their key categories as a block, especially:
- Enterprise 2.0 category
- Enterprise Architecture category
My hats off to those guys: it’s been great to discover I’m not so
alone in my thinking as I’d feared. Now to put it into practice…
Originally posted 2008 by Tom Graves
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