By Arthur Cole
But probably the biggest change in enterprise architectures is not the designs themselves but the ways in which knowledge workers will interact with them. While Forbes’ Jason Bloomberg raised eyebrows last year with a post entitled “Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?”, he 
clarified later by saying that traditional EA is on the way out and a more open, egalitarian style is emerging. Tools like self-service provisioning are making it easier for business users to define their own operating parameters, so the enterprise architect won’t need to concern himself with portfolio management and other functions within traditional frameworks like TOGAF. Rather, the EA will be tasked with facilitating this self-service through governance and policy management so as to give non-IT pros just enough room to be productive but not enough to get them, or the organization, into trouble.
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