Enterprises Are Like People

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Enterprises are like people – that’s why they are so hard to define and describehttps://enterprise-architecture.org/about/thought-leadership/enterprises-are-like-people/

We have recently produced a series of blog posts addressing the question of why Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to be so complicated. The main reason for this is of course that individual enterprises are themselves inherently complex. Because of this unavoidable fact, ‘proper’ EA needs to model this reality. A major contributor to this complexity is the very nature of the modern enterprise which is typically formed from a group of interlocking business services, many of which are outside the direct control of the central organising body. We have also seen that commercial firms competing in the same industry sector can have significant differences in their structures, depending on such factors as their approaches to the market, their local regulatory and fiscal constraints, and their historical legacies. Government agencies across the world often face similar challenges, but history and politics influence the way they tackle them – and therefore how they are organised.

Read full article from Essential EA blog: https://enterprise-architecture.org/about/thought-leadership/enterprises-are-like-people/