BP Trends Article The Business Architecture Landscape

BP Trends Article The Business Architecture Landscape

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A Business Architecture is a model; perhaps the most complex one we could imagine in business since it should cover all aspects of the whole business including how it runs day to day as well as what must be changed to keep it relevant. Joe H. Ward and Earl Jennings said in 1973 that ‘models are idealized in the sense that they are less complicated than reality and hence easier to use’. This may be true but our Business Architectures are still multi-variant and have many interdependent parts and are still complicated by their very nature. Their many interacting components impinge on one another in mysterious ways that the architect must somehow unravel. It is an impossible journey for those who crave perfection and indisputable detail. The good and the bad news came to us courtesy of George Box in 1987 when he said that ‘All models are wrong but some are useful’...

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