One of the prevailing themes of discussions at this year's ACORD LOMA conference revolved around the role a sound architecture plays in the ultimate delivery of business value, and in the seemingly never-ending quest of IT and business alignment.
While the first part of this theme certainly remains true, the notion that EA and IT groups are still running after the alignment poltergeist seems dated at best, and perhaps even harmful.
In this new world of leveraging business technology for competitive value, IT and business alignment are just the table stakes for being in the game. Future focused organizations achieved this long ago and have evolved into seamlessly collaborative environments in which there is no longer any discernible difference between the business and IT disciplines. In short, well-architected business technology solutions and services are the new drivers of business and competitive value, and the barriers between the business and IT are non-existent.
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