Blog Rijk van Vulpen

Architect views by Cubists and Futurists

2008-11-30T16:49:55+00:00

My colleague Ruud van Vliet has presented the future of the information architect on LAC2008. One of his observations is that an information architect must be able to juggle with many worldviews at the same time. He must see many aspects of a universe of discourse at once, from several angles.

This calls for a holistic

New InformationArchitect Ways: Faust and the Devil

2008-12-07T22:34:49+00:00

What would we information architects give for an elegant or fitting worldview or world knowledge in a business domain? Faust, the protagonist of the book of the same name by Goethe, was willing to give his soul for that. And Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, could know that is the consequence. Besides lawyer, poet, humanist and literature writer

Emotion Representation ;-)

2008-10-26T12:04:05+00:00

�This is the third day without website and e-mail! Do you guys not understand the consequences of running a business without e-mail these days?!� Last week I had to call my internet provider for lack of service. And that was not without emotions.

I realized then and there that one of the consequences of entering the conceptual age will

Making sense of complicated domains

2008-10-12T11:37:45+00:00

How will the market model for the energy market develop? How can the youth wellbeing in all its complexity be managed in the Netherlands?

As information architects we aim to arriving somehow at a stable set of principles, domain models or business requirements. But with the complex questions active in the business or organizational architecture, stability is hard to

Use different worldviews / paradigms

2008-10-05T10:43:16+00:00

In my previous blog I stated that we - knowledge workers and information architects – need to add value in innovative conceptualisations of the real world. A first step to innovative conceptualising is to become aware of your current worldview or paradigm. And to try new ones. I wish you many worldviews.

From Information Age to the Conceptual Age

2008-09-28T09:01:54+00:00

We can make the move from the �logical layer� and Zachman�s Designer view, with hard system and logical models and innovations via technology, to the �conceptual layer� in Zachman�s Owner view, with �biological� models.