Since a few days I'm telling
various people about a missing role/person in the company. Whilst I may
be an Enterprise Architect since a couple of months now; getting things
done and organized in the IT departments seems just so easier than it is
in the business side. I know it is due to my IT background that it just
feels much more natural and hence you roll much better in the IT space.
I consider myself doing a relative decent job (as a youngster in this
role) in my natural habitat; acting like oil to make the machines run
smoother again.
I
believe a Business Architect is actually a person much needed to act as
a counter part of the more tech savvy enterprise architect. This person
should be the one that ties up the different departments and make them
act according to the companies strategies; better yet, he should be
involved in aligning the various departmental strategies into one
coherent direction. Enterprise Architects coming from the IT corner will
have a hard time to get this done; I believe this business oriented
role is much more the destination for let's say a business analyst that
never worked in IT.
An
Enterprise Architect can get early involvement in the strategic
exercises but will usually be coordinating between the business and IT;
much less getting the ducks of every business department on a row, so
there's definitely some work left for the business architect.
Funny when I was thinking all of this, that I read this article http://www.cio.com/article/684344/The_6_Hottest_New_Jobs_in_IT where the Business Architect snatches today's hottest IT role….