CAPTURING THE ORGANIZATION ORGANISM

This book will demystify Enterprise Architecture (EA), demonstrate its usefulness, and empower you to make EA an integral part of your organization&rsquo,s business management and forward planning.An organization is like a living organism. The architecture of an organism&rsquo,s internal structures must allow that organism to thrive within the environment in which it is operating. These &ldquo,internal structures&rdquo, within an organism might be organs or tissues, in an organization, though, they are the &ldquo,information systems&rdquo,.As an organism&rsquo,s environment changes, its internal systems and structures must adapt. We will use this analogy as a starting point to discuss the &ldquo,why&rdquo, and &ldquo,what&rdquo, questions of enterprise architecture for information systems in organizations. To begin this process, we must switch from the traditional EA approach of looking only at internal factors, to a new, holistic view that considers the external environment. In other words, while most EA discussions are &ldquo,inside-out,&rdquo, in this book, we will attempt to go &ldquo,outside-in.&rdquo,Capturing the Organization Organism