Only governance can tell you how information should be organized so that it can be converted into knowledge. Politics always comes before technology. Customers demanded solutions that fit a political need more than an economic rationale. That lesson should be heeded by anyone commissioned to write yet another technical architecture document. One of the basic principles of any information architecture should be a strong bias for giving priority to processing external information before processing internal information.
Competitive forces are external whereas bureaucratic forces are internal.
Both forces are dangerous, except that the external threats are swifter and must be dealt with first. The capacity to translate external signals into responses determines how well an organization copes with external challenges. An information architecture is one way for an organization to coordinate itself first for survival and then for prosperity. There is no such thing as a standard enterprise architecture. It must be as unique as a fingerprint because enterprises differ in how they function.