Digital transformation initiatives depend upon business agility, and look to their IT departments to help them deliver it. And yet, today’s IT environment is heterogeneous, complicated, and inflexible – in spite of the transformative trends impacting technology, including cloud computing, big data, and mobile technologies.
The fundamentally disruptive nature of the cloud as well as the other forces of change impacting the organization force us to deal with how the organizational, process, technology, and information elements of the enterprise change, rather than the various elements themselves.
The missing link that must connect the business agility driver to a transformed IT organization is the Bloomberg Agile Architecture™ Technique: an agile approach to enterprise architecture that drives continuous business transformation by architecting how the entire enterprise leverages change, instead of the chaos that typically results from traditional business and technology disruptions.
Taking an Agile approach to architecture means tackling all levels of the architecture in an iterative fashion. Each iteration has a desired business outcome, and the architecture drives organizational, process, technology, and information hypotheses that form the inputs into the analysis.
