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March 28, 2006

Exercise of Fools

One question that is asked over and over again is what is the difference between a Data Architect and an Information Architect. Of course, both are important and both are desperately needed in todays business environment. One obvious difference seems to emerge and that is that we data architects are hell bent on making things as complicated as possible. Perhaps thats our nature, perhaps thats our competitive advantage, or perhaps thats just how we see the world. And truth be known, information technology is complicated. Information architects focus on making things simple and easy to understand, find, and reuse. Tom Peters once commented on the complexities of business that we cannot help ourselves but to add confusion.

Addition is the exercise of fools, subtraction is the exercise of genius.

Posted by Todd at March 28, 2006 11:57 AM

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Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld at March 29, 2006 11:10 AM