https://andrewphunter.com/tags/business-architecture/ Recent content in Business Architecture on Andrew Hunter — Systems, Architecture, and Engineering Governance Hugo en-us Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewphunter.com/applications/transform-the-company-not-the-technology/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewphunter.com/applications/transform-the-company-not-the-technology/ <p>Part I of this series turned the company&rsquo;s objectives into constraints and held them over the estate. That is where a transformation starts, but it is not the first decision it makes. Before you can constrain the technology, you have to settle something older and more contested: who owns what.</p> <p>A transformation re-draws the company&rsquo;s operating model: the map of the business capabilities and, for each one, who is accountable for it. That is a business decision, and often a legal one. The technology comes after. The systems express the ownership the business decided; they do not decide it.</p> <p>This is why the work transforms the company, not the technology. Skip the re-draw and go straight to the stack, and you rebuild the old company in cleaner code. Every ownership question the business left open gets decided by the systems instead, by default and out of sight. Better platform, same company. A migration wearing a transformation&rsquo;s name.</p>