Organizations earn their architecture
The quality of systems thinking and decision making in an organization of people determines the quality of their architecture, for better and worse. If the current way people work was going to create good architecture, it already would have.
IA emerges out of the taskscape of what constitutes “business as usual.” Thus, if you’re going to fix your IA, you’re going to have to fix your org. The problem with this is that IAs are rarely put in positions of authority to dictate wide-scale organizational changes. One answer is to get yourself put in positions of authority , but by that point you usually have other things to worry about. Another answer is to figure out how to make change happen from an unleveraged position, which is at the heart of Program entrepreneurship.
Either way, to fix the IA, you’re going to have to change how your organization operates.
See also: The purpose of a system is what it does, the spandrels of San Marco
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