April 3, 2016 / Dennis Holinka
Topic 6 – Emerging Business Architecture
This week's posts go over the Emerging Business Architecture, the various perspectives, and related reflections in the blog.
Post 3 – Future of Business Architecture - Jobs Creation
The future of business architecture is highly tied to the purpose and mission of the discipline of enterprise architecture. That is, it is tied to the purpose of developing a viable and sustainable enterprise such that it provides for wealth creation and valuable services for customers in society. Enterprises and businesses must in principle follow their societal mission of wealth creation in pursuit of human flourishing for society. The last decade has been a testament to the loss of jobs and financial crisis that have ruined families, wealth, assets, and the American Dream for many Americans. If we as a country and even greater, as a global society want to flourish, it will require that we create these engines of economic wealth creation known as Enterprises. Paraphrasing John Zachman of the Zachman Framework (e.g. ZIFA), the twentieth century and industrial age was about creating products and services, the twenty first century and Information Age is about the creation and design of Enterprises - they create products and services in their non visible architectures.
In that same frame of thought, the future of business architecture must build upon the ashes of financial recessions and great foundations left by wonderful thought leaders. The future of business architecture must be able to incorporate the extended environment in a dynamic manner to properly model and simulate transformations to the enterprise with an eye on the outcome being that enterprise is profitable. I have had my share of personal injuries due to hyper-competitive work environments and failed business models that lead to large layoffs and uncertainties for me and my family. The future of business architecture must be built using a robust framework that can use modeling to predict and prescribe enterprise transformations so that there is a mentality of abundance through the enterprise value creation. In other words, the business architecture must be successful enough to provide job security and increasing wealth prosperity for all dedicated participants in the firm.
The future of the enterprise will be tied to understanding the opportunities available to the business under transformation in order constantly update its firm and remain competitive with a sustainable advantage. This will require a continuous and ongoing process of surveilling the outer environment, defining the business contexts and the formulation of excellent competitive advantage strategies for the firm. The next iteration of enterprise business architecture will also have to include a study in the social aspects of the firm and there must be predictive and consistent models for transforming an enterprise that is ultimately run by humans even though they may be highly assisted by computers and information systems. The future of business and therefore business architecture must include an opportunity for employees to become owners of the means of production even more than the providers of capital to those firms. It should include the ability for a firm to provide security, wealth, and a future whose methods rest upon the expertise of business and enterprise architects to develop the models that inform the organization on how to achieve profitable outcomes over the sustained long term.
In order to achieve this, we will have to expand upon the current metamodel such as EBMM and begin to incoroporate many of the needed concepts and information models required to manage the firm methodically and precisely. It will require an explosively robust ontology of relationships between many terms and concepts that are founded upon sound theories of profitable firms and their business strategies. The future begins with defining the future state and documenting the current state and driving a roadmap to get there. Depicted is the generic EBMM model that will require considerable expansion.
Figure: EBMM Conceptual Model - Starting Point for Expansion
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In addition, the business architecture domain will require a considerable ontological expansion of its theoretical domain to include socio technical aspects of enterprises, particularly, the motivation and engagement of human resources in order for people to be valued as assets that improve the value outcome for an enterprise. Even if we were able to automate the creation of all things in society but didn't that have a system, to direct the benefits on behalf of people, we will have lost the purpose for which these enterprises exist. Stated differently, enterprises exist to service people and for their benefit. Any enterprise architecture that doesn't improve the lot of employees and customers will have serious defective limitations on its internal strategies as they will be found to be in constant conflict with people who run those enterprises.
The ontology development of the firm will require social science aspects be weaved into the metamodel so that the relationships and principles of sustainable human resourcing will enable the enterprise to achieve success. The future of business architecture will hinge upon having the right information architecture about the business laws that apply uniformly for success business where it concerns the people, process, and systems that are employed by the organization under concern. Today, the models of the firm are limited in a form of capability modeling transformation approach as depicted.
The ontology development of the firm will require social science aspects be weaved into the metamodel so that the relationships and principles of sustainable human resourcing will enable the enterprise to achieve success. The future of business architecture will hinge upon having the right information architecture about the business laws that apply uniformly for success business where it concerns the people, process, and systems that are employed by the organization under concern. Today, the models of the firm are limited in a form of capability modeling transformation approach as depicted.
Figure: EnterpriseArchitects.com Capability Modeling Approach
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In conclusion, the future will require that we have a greater understanding on the levers and direct/indirect drivers of business success and that the enterprise architecture is socially sustainable in addition to the sustainability of its profit model. Only then will we be able to purge the financial crisis of the future and create jobs that are worthy of human dignity and talent as we follow our existence with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and the Truth.
The future will require an ontology be based more on a dynamic enterprise socio technical system, multi stakeholder analysis of the extended enterprise such as the one adapted in the depiction. The model shows that there is a comprehensive set of influences that allow the business architecture to survive from the corporate structure, its internal pursuits, to the external influences such as culture flowing from society from whence the employees are resourced.
Figure: Adapted Enterprise Dynamic Ecosystem Influences
In conclusion, the future will require that we have a greater understanding on the levers and direct/indirect drivers of business success and that the enterprise architecture is socially sustainable in addition to the sustainability of its profit model. Only then will we be able to purge the financial crisis of the future and create jobs that are worthy of human dignity and talent as we follow our existence with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and the Truth.
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