Driving Efficiency and Innovation by Consistently Managing Complexity and Change: the Four Pillars of Holistic Enterprise Architecture (Architecture Models, Framework, Methodology, and Solution Models)
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Everything that exists has architecture, whether it has been written down or not. That is the fundamental problem – each person in an Enterprise has an implicit representation of what they think the Enterprise is all about. Architecture is an attribute and cannot exist by itself. A blueprint of a house isn’t its architecture; rather, it is one description of its architecture.
People built things for thousands of years without needing to be concerned about describing the architecture of the things they were building. As civilization evolved, however, large, complex construction projects, e.g., temples, palaces, aqueducts, coliseums, fortresses, etc., involving tradespeople of many skills, huge quantities of building materials of different kinds, and taking many years to complete, required a much more disciplined approach to building things. Consequently, “building things” evolved into the art and science that we call architecture.
As things get more complex, architecture becomes an imperative. When things are simple, you generally do not need architecture. Our complex Enterprises of today need architecture.
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