Seven Secret Tips to Build Intelligent Enterprise Architectures
Abstract
An article in the Fall 2006 issue of INCOSE Insight about the 2007 INCOSE International Symposium [Insight, 2006] cited four behaviors needed for an enterprise to exhibit intelligence: (1) It measures both the value of results to stakeholders and the conformance of results to principles of systems and society; (2) It maintains precise awareness of the enterprise situation with respect to goals; (3) It adapts to and aligns the enterprise with changes in context and capabilities in pursuit of improving goal achievement and sustainable worth; and (4) It ensures enterprise integrity even when all factors are changing unpredictably. Unfortunately, knowing that these behaviors signify an intelligent enterprise does not tell us how to build intelligent enterprise architectures. But there are seven secret tips gained through hard experience that can substantially contribute to the construction of successful enterprise architectures. Well, they're really not secret, but if they were widely practiced we wouldn't hear Cobb's Paradox [Cobb, 2004]: "We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure - so why do they still fail?"
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA580593
Entities
People
- John M. Colombi
- Joseph W. Carl
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology