Forrester: - Making Leaders Successful Every Day

Forrester's Digital Business Architecture vision describes the future of IT architecture: A core of metadata that defines business processes, policies, and rules, and controls business operations across your diverse set of IT applications, computing infrastructure, and collaboration channels. But the vision is not intended and should not be used as the basis of a huge IT architecture conversion effort — a complete implementation with off-the-shelf products is not even practical yet. Instead, Digital Business Architecture provides a framework for planning an incremental evolution toward the future, enabling business technology solutions to deliver more business value today and to hold up better as business and technology evolve. So, the question is not, "How do we build a complete Digital Business Architecture?" but rather "Which pieces of the vision provide the most business value for us now, and how can we use it to prepare for future evolution of our business and our technology?"