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| cobus.smit | Posted on: 2008/3/17 2:08 |
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Developing information architecture for banking... Take a look at the "popular" literature around information architecture. Do some searches on Amazon... and find...that information architecture is often squeezed into a box that talks about corporate website design.
This is not a good way to start your day if you are planning to get a better understanding of information architecture in the banking space. Also - Information SYSTEM architecture comes up quite a lot. Are we bound to technology (intranet design, system design?). Surely not. Recent experience in this space shows that information architecture (as owned and understood by BUSINESS) requires logical reasoning and classification that is completely seperate from any form of technological realisation. Building a logical model that integrates with information classification, business ownership, process and technology will be part of the process, but focusing on the one angle alone will nelglect the healty "oneness" of information architecture as a concept. The discipline combines many views and requires both subject matter expertise and heavy analytical skills. So my question is....what is information architecture to you?
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| ben.clohesy | Posted on: 2009/1/28 0:26 |
Not too shy to talk   Joined: 2008/2/29 From: SL Australia Posts: 12 |
Re: Developing information architecture for banking... Well, it's certainly one of the underpinning aspects of any reference model and of the overall enterprise architecture. Various aspects of the reference model draw on the information architecture and utilise it in many ways - for example, the process view of the business will have a set of information that is utilised in each of the process steps with transformations applied along the way.
Information architecture had a good run about 7 years ago, but ended up developing complex data models that fed into the data warehouse - I think that information architecture is quite different to data architecture. It should be a coherent view of a particular domain with reference to specific implementations (of a business or IT system) and it should be detailed enough to allow analysis to be performed on it to accelerate and assist the development of solutions. It should also be owned by someone - the challenge is to find someone who will own it - and to get other parts of an organisation to agree to that. Consider the concept of Party (or Customer) - who owns it? Cheers, BC
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