Framework


As an enterprise architect, I began looking at the seemingly incomprehensible array of technology solutions that populate the marketplace. I was not looking for a basket of point solutions for a range of burning issues. I was looking for common themes, threads, and trends that might be underlying these individual solutions and their capabilities. I was looking for something simple, a unifying field theory, if you will. I needed a concept of organization that would cut through the marketing muck, technobabble, and tech fads. There had to be some vantage point, a perspective from which to connect these technologies and components in a framework that could align to organizational goals. That framework needed to provide an approachable way of understanding how the pieces of the Bionic Enterprise fit together.

There are three aspects to the framework and to organizations: the Human Perspective, the Fusion Perspective, and the Technology Perspective. I also decided there had to be a way to gauge these aspects of the enterprise. It was important to assess the maturity of the humans and the organization in the Human Perspective. It was important to understand the extent to which technology in the Technology Perspective could enable improved performance and user experiences. It occurred to me that all these management disciplines: Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, AIOPS, Design Thinking, User Experience Design, strategies for innovation, creativity, and digital transformation were all parts of a bigger puzzle. There had to be a way to make sense of it all. How could leadership fit these puzzle pieces together in a cogent manner?

These elements had to be drawn together into a cohesive way of approaching enterprise transformation. Lastly the relationship between the humans and the technology and the transformation of both human and technology toward a more bionic organization had to be addressed. That would be the role of the Fusion Perspective. Each of these three perspectives on the enterprise had to be represented within the framework as you see above.



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