Enterprise Achitecture(EA) has been ever evolving discipline.
The evolution was almost always tied to the then prevelent management concepts and technology trends.
The correllation of management ideas, technologies and enterprise architecture is not new.
However understanding these topics in the current context and applying the resultant ideas to emerging enterprise-wide challenges can be a valuable exercise.
Early days of Automation were inspired by Scientic Management concepts of F.W. Taylor.
They were focussed on the following:
1. Clear Delienation fo Responsibility
2. Separation of planning from operations
3. Incentive schemes for workers
4. Management by execption
5. Task Specialization
These concepts took over 60 years( F.W.Taylor -- 1881 ) to be fully incoporated in automated systems.
Eary Mainframe machines were purpose built -- Accounting or Scientific/Engineering Applications.
There was clear separation of plan
I work for a highly successful emerging global corporation.
I am intrigued by the challenges architecting and managing global scale Information Infrastructure.
In my view, long term viability such an infrastructure is based on the folllowing factors:
SIMPLE ideas
SECURE implementation
STABLE maintanance
SCALABLE Approach