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BT or EA?
Posted: Aug 22, 2006
Kevin Smith, Architect, Notley IT Ltd. |
As an Englishman, the acronym BT stands for British Telecom - which evokes feelings of high prices, bad service, and low ADSL speeds! Which is not good.
I understand where you are coming from though, and it is the same thing I have been thinking about with regard to the term Enterprise Architecture.
We all know how important that is for a company and that is not just about technology - (I think the US is more advanced in this area in business take-up - a lot of people in the UK still think it's just a term invented so consultants can charge higher prices) but covers the entire enterprise and that it is the things that glues the business and IT together.
However, the word "Architecture" in the name for EA is causing problems with the business, because as soon as the business hear the word Architecture they start to think of technology, servers, etc and get frightened an put off.
I think u will have the same problem with the word "Technology" in your "Business Technology" pair. It also reinforces the idea that business and technology are separate - just putting the two words together doesn't do it for me.
I like the work Enterprise because it can cover anything from a small company, to a multi billion pound company to a government department, and I like the word Architecture because to me architecture is structure - but we can't call it Enterprise Structure and that doesn¿t sound right.
True EA sits not only about IT but also the business. It is not an IT/IS department role.
I think we need to educate the business world what EA is and how it can help them rather than confusing them with another acronym.
Cheers,
Kevin Smith
Enterprise Architect
Kevin@NotleyIT.com
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