You don´t need an IT Architect, you need several
Search the Internet and you will see that an increasing number of companies are looking for “Architects” to look after their IT systems. What is not clear however, are the actual expectations of this role, what kind of skills are required, and even what kind of Architectures might be possible. From a corporate perspective it is clear that IT architecture has become too complex and needs to be better planned and managed. But how that happens and who will do it is unclear. A little history Let´s go back in time to the early 1990´s. Back then, IT was experiencing the beginning of the Internet era. Mainframes were still the primary enterprise platform, personal computing was growing by leaps and bounds, but many leaders were still risk-averse and reluctant to change their IT systems platforms. As the processing capacity of Intel and SPARC-based systems grew, a downsizing trend started. Departments started to transition from expensive mainframes and terminals and replace them with mo