Section 19.7. A Framework for Moving Forward


19.7. A Framework for Moving Forward

In this chapter, we've mapped out a loose and ambitious framework that, even if you don't agree with our specific recommendations, will provide you with ideas to mull over and react to as you develop your own approach. By breaking up overwhelming problems into digestible pieces, we hope that this framework will ensure that information architecture becomes a permanent fixture within enterprises that need it. By taking a phased approach, we believe this framework can stand the test of time. And by staying true to an entrepreneurial approach, this framework might defuse the urge to "force" autonomous business units to comply with centralizing efforts.

Ideally, this framework will be flexible enough to roll with the inevitable punches of corporate mergers, spin-offs, and reorganizations. We hope that it helps you and your organization avoid the waste and frustration of developing elegant information architectures on paper that can never be implemented in the unruly distributed information environments that have proliferated within the modern enterprise.




Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
ISBN: 0596527349
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 194

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