What is Architecture?

Business Technology architecture is the art and science of designing and delivering valuable technology strategy.

This definition was painstakingly devised from thousands of surveys, interviews, and discussions to serve as the basis for our professional platform, shared purpose, and our value to clients and society.

Our Platform

The BTABoK and Iasa serve as platforms for a robust architecture profession.

• The BTABoK serves as a peer-reviewed, stable baseline of architecture knowledge, skills, and techniques that are internally consistent with each other (verified to work together).
• The BTABoK serves as the ecosystem by which individuals and organizations can work together to ensure practices are safe, ethical, and repeatable.
• Creates and maintains a career path for architects of all recognized specializations.
• Creates and maintains the learning materials and experiences needed to grow architecture professionals.
• Creates and maintains a platform for experimentation with data collection, evidence chains, and opportunities to demonstrate the effectiveness of a technique.
• Creates and maintains tools that are beneficial to the practicing architect or architect team based on published knowledge and techniques.

Our Shared Purpose

Our professional purpose is to aid our clients and society in the successful application, use, and adoption of technology in all safe aspects of change and growth. We are professional business and technology experts, certified and ethically bound to give our clients sound, honest advice on the impacts of change and to lead that change as necessary to achieve the expected benefits.

Our Value to Clients and Society

Our value to society is simple, taking on complex business change with underlying technology complexity is fraught with risk and danger. We increase the chances that our clients will succeed in these endeavors in a way that minimizes risk. We are bound ethically to do so in a way that maximizes the beneficial outcome not just for our clients but to society as a whole.

Our Values

• Unify the profession along standard professional practices. This includes strict guidelines for specializations and how they practice together.
• Capture techniques that actually work with background and experiential data.
• Evolve individual concepts and mesh into a working foundation.
• Create a single value framework for architects, making specialisation a sub-component of that value.
• Remove the extremist view on any of the 4 large groupings of architects (business, IT management, engineering, change management).

Our Goals

We seek to accomplish the following:

1. Create a unified body of knowledge and techniques which serves as the foundation reference for professionals all over the world. To which they contribute and from which they benefit in their roles.
2. Represent architects as individual professionals working together decide their collective practices, direction, and professional guidelines, and that this process is aware of, but not overtly influenced by, marketing, hype, corporate management, or other sources of distortion.
3. Create meaningful experimentation, knowledge development, testing, and rollout tools to reduce the confusion and distraction of modern technology ecosystems.
4. Create meaningful and beneficial relationships with governments, education, academia, and legal bodies to represent the benefits of a modern architecture profession.
5. Ensure the quality of practice, guardrails and ethical standards of all of our members especially those claiming certification levels.
6. Create a meaningful hiring standard and career path with our partners that accomplishes our vision for the profession.
7. Ensure that technology remains a benefit to humanity and where possible root-out misuses and poor judgement within the framework of the societies in which our members are recognized.

What we are Fixing

• Massive failures in modern organizations.
• Massive identity disorder within the profession.
• Stagnation in both the research of practical methods and their application.
• Complete lack of quality decision-making in both technology and business.
• Dangerous tech spending and adoption behavior.

"No one is going to give us a seat at the table… we have to get it for ourselves. Together."