Thursday, April 12, 2007

Current State of Business Architecture March 2007

Do a Google search for "Business Architecture." You will get thousands of hits. When you really start looking through the results, you will see that there are very little, if any, sites dedicated solely to business architecture. It is referenced by IBM, Apple, Microsoft, the Open Group, etc, but it is just that a reference, in many cases organizations trying to catch the wave of the latest buzz words and attaching it to their products, services, or frameworks.

If you would have looked for a job titled Business Architect 18-24 months ago, you would have been very hard pressed to find one and the ones that did exist were very IT/solution development focused. Today the role, as well as business architecture in general, is growing rapidly. Industries such as insurance, financial services and the government appear to be the leaders in practicing business architecture. You will find roles at all levels of the organization from a Chief Business Architect - aligned at the C-level of an organization to Junior Business Architect focusing on low level modeling techniques.

As a result, we have created BizArchCommunity.com. BizArchCommunity.com is meant to be a place for Business Architects to be educated, educate others, share information, and most importantly communicate with other Business Architects.

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