BrainBlog for BiZZdesign by Jason Bloomberg
How Architects Can Break Down Silos by ‘Thinking Digital’
In the first article in this series, I explained how architects can become ‘change experts’ in their organizations by working together to resolve technology silos. As per Conway’s Law, organizational silos will follow suit.
This cross-organizational requirement to break down silos is a fundamental mandate of digital transformation, as organizations seek to build change itself as a core competency. Furthermore, of all the individuals within an enterprise, it falls to the architects in their role as change experts to drive this competency.
Focusing on resolving technological silos, for example by championing cloud-native computing, is only part of the answer, however.
An important principle for any architect to understand – especially those serving as change experts – is that architecture isn’t really about technology at all. It’s about people.
As organizations proceed with their digital transformations, they must double down on the importance of customers and employees to their digital strategies. To succeed at driving change as a core competency, therefore, architects must place this human-centricity at the center of their efforts.
We call this focus ‘thinking digital.’
