Episode 4 Architecture as the Missing Layer in Transformation
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Summary
Digital transformation continues to struggle—not because organizations lack technology, but because they misunderstand the real impediments to change. In this episode of Digital Transformation Architect, Dr. Darren Pulsipher revisits the foundational constraints of desirability, feasibility, and via
Intent
Introduce architecture as a governing system, not documentation. This is the conceptual pivot of the series.
Core Questions
What role should architecture actually play?
Why documentation-based architecture fails
How architecture governs coherence over time
Concept Flow
Architecture vs architecture artifacts
Architecture as decision constraint
Alignment across strategy, execution, and governance
Architecture as a continuous discipline
Preparing for ODXA as a response
Whitepaper Source
Section 4 (Architecture as Missing Layer)
Enables Later
Article: “Architecture Is Not Documentation”
Prepares audience for ODXA introduction
Bridges theory to structural solution