That four longtime authorities couldn’t bring consensus to a term by which many jobs are currently described was telling, and Wolff says it’s up to individual organization to put flesh on the bones of this topic. “What we didn’t get to was the culmination of the concept of how difficult it is to communicate that organizations have a different definition of architecture strategy and IT governance. My suggestion to organizations is to actually bring real –life examples of events and scenarios that are happening in the organization to provide further meat to that discussion.”
Said Kappelman, “We’re early to the game with this idea. This idea of taking a more holistic systematic approach to everything, not just organizations, is changing medicine, it’s changing business things like logistics, hopefully someday in our lifetimes it will change the way that government policy is made. We have to invent words and [even enterprise architecture] sounds way too much like engineering … I think we end up changing the words one day.”
Jim Ericson is editorial director of Information Management, a SourceMedia publication. You can reach him at Jim.Ericson@sourcemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jimericson.
