Organizational architecture

Park YW, Fujimoto T, Hong P (2012) Product architecture, organizational capabilities and IT integration for competitive advantage. Int J Inf Manage 32(2012) 479 188... 

A component, on the larger scale, often supports a particular business role played by an individual or department with responsibility for a particular function. Businesses talk increasingly of open federated architectures, in which the structure of distributed components mirrors the organizational structure of the business. When reorganizing a business, we need to be able to rewire software in the same way. 

Architectural innovation and modular organizational forms. Academy of Management journal. Special Research Forum on New and Evolving Organizational Forms, 44(6) 1229-1249. 

Nadler, D., Tushman, M., Nadler, M. 1997. Competing by Design The Power of Organizational Architecture. New York Oxford University Press. 

Recently, living cells were reported to actively direct the assembly of lipid-silica nanostructures 78 extension of this cell-directed assembly (CDA) to hybrid architectures will add another level of organizational control to these materials. 

The Microarchitecture is a lower level, more concrete, description of the system. It involves such details as how the constituent parts of the system are interconnected and how they interoperate in order to implement the instruction set architecture. For example, the size of a computer s cache memory is an organizational issue which, in general, has nothing to do with the instruction set architecture. 

As the dehydron/disulfide organizational principle is established and shown to hold for soluble proteins, we cannot fail to notice that it also introduces a new set of problems stemming from a basic question What is in physical terms the fate of a soluble protein whose structure significantly violates the architectural constraints defined by the balance equation This issue will be explored in Chap. 5. 

Finally, the software architecture of the overall design environment was also developed in a subproject, which provided the organizational framework for software integration [26]. 

Most of the intermediary metabolism in cells occurs within the aqueous compartments. However, cells are not dilute bags of juice. They have evolved the capacity to exert exquisite organizational and structural control of their internal environments. It is probable that the design of present-day cells is retained from early cells evolution of relationships among metabolism, cell architecture, and water. 

Also in considering good and bad architectures whether they are of buildings or computer systems, there is a concept of balance. A good IT architecture must be balanced and optimized for maximum business values as well as technical advantages, also in consideration of the organizational dynamics of people. 

This principle stipulates that it should be possible to integrate models developed in various views, such as data models, organizational models, and business process models. This requires an integrated methodology, that is, an architecture providing a holistic metamodel (see Section 4). 

Figure 2 shows a conceptual architecture of Adexa iCoUaboration suite and how it interfaces both Ultra- and interenterprise. The foUowing is a review of some specific areas, examples, and improvements where the iCoUaboration tool could help the enterprise in systematic integration of technology into an organizational setting. 

Nadler, D. A., Gerstein, M. S., Shaw, R. B. and Associates (1992), Organizational Architecture, Jossey-Bass, San Erancisco. 

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