Next Generation IT Architecture

Foundation Architecture

Expert’s Speak

“Architectures of the future will have to enable decision-making in light of corporate performance and conformance and unconditional agility.

Beyond its role of capturing and decomposing organizational and technological complexity, future architectures need to integrate strategic and financial elements. Strategy and finance are already modeled, but in different ‘architectures’. Only a tighter integration, however, will allow ‘make-or-buy-decisions’ based on ‘strategy-aware architectures’. Even more interesting, a ‘sell-option’ emerges when architectures will be designed based on loosely-coupled ...