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Architecting the Emergent Enterprise: New Game, New Rules
26 August 2008
 
Brian Burke  

To enable emergent enterprises, enterprise architects will become minimalists focusing on architecting the lines, not the boxes. This radical change to EA will decentralize innovation and unleash constituents in the broader business ecosystem to experiment, innovate and evolve.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 The Old Game
2.0
    
 Complex Adaptive Systems Through Decentralized Control
3.0
    
 Understanding Emergence
4.0
    
 Applying Emergent Properties to Enterprises
5.0
    
 Design an Engine for Change
6.0
    
 Embrace the Inversion of Control
7.0
    
 Define the New Rules
8.0
    
 Hourglass Architectures in Practice
9.0
    
 Challenges of the Hourglass Model

9.1
    
 Semantic Issues
9.2
    
 IFaP Versioning
9.3
    
 Higher Cost
9.4
    
 Culture Change Is Slow
10.0
    
 Conclusions

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 How Emergence Changes the Rules for Enterprises
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Trust Levels in the Business Ecosystem
 

Figure 2. 
 The Enterprise Value Network
 

Figure 3. 
 Span of Control in Centralized and Decentralized Models
 

Figure 4. 
 David Clark's Internet Hourglass
 



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