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Formalizing Business Design
Business architecture is a field similar to building architecture. Building architecture is the art and science of designing buildings. Business architecture is the art and science of designing businesses. A business organization design is implicit in every strategy. Explicit recognition of business architecture and design provides the ideas and constructs for a formal body of knowledge on the subject.
Architecture -- Multi-Disciplinary Systems Design
Both building and business architecture deal with the design and management of systems. As such, they are both multidisciplinary fields. Building architecture integrates mathematics, science, art, technology, social science, politics, history, philosophy and so on. Business architecture integrates management science, economics, systems science, social science, politics, history, philosophy, strategy, quality, and so forth. Architecture is a discipline that rises out of many other sciences.
Architecture -- Explicit Knowledge and Process
The direct reference and allusions to "architecture" are prominent in the explanation of business designs and models, thus strategy. The term "architecture", as used herein, refers to the integrity of design, the use of design principles, and the view of a business as a system. "Architecture" infers design results from an explicit process. In the case of businesses, the business model reflects the design.
