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Architecture, especially business architecture, often happens in isolation as we always work in an open ever changing system, however the business case for architecture is to close the gap of isolation. Usually the easiest way is to avoid this isolation is by setting standards and governance. However the same standards are often those that are leading us into the silo of our enterprise. This enterprise silo is usually counteracted by being aware of cross industry standards.
So this is why any architect is given the advise to reserve some time on checking out what is happening around him without losing touch on the standards of his own organisation and only change them when the industry is running in another direction. However I usually ignore this kind of advise, as most of technology and architecture is actually not changing that much. True we have a lot companies creating new products all the time with ever more ways to do the same thing, but there are very few changes that really take place and funny enough in the last 10 years they mainly happened in business architecture due to the digitalisation in many areas. A classical change case is that of the publishing industry where the change in business architecture was tremendous, while almost all of the other architects mainly put all the technology out that they were hoping to deploy long before.
So when looking where to expand yourself my recommendation is first stop to get knowledge by asking your existing vendors or really any vendors at all, as their interest to sell is in stark contrast for you to really discover new horizons, as the existing vendors will do anything to cement their position at your company by using you as the standard setter and new vendors in over promising and lying to get a foot in the door. So instead often it is best to explore other things in your private persona and only use your organisation resources on the procurement of market data or on documentation.
So this is also why I will soon continue this blog in discussing the bases on architecture in some areas as I did it with my podcasts before.
