Key take-aways
There are also signs that NORA may be falling behind the times in terms of the subjects it covers.
It’s interesting to look at the recent booklet, The Future of Digitalisation in the Netherlands, in which 35 government administrators and CIOs are asked to talk about the projects they are working on and subjects they are involved in. A small selection of subjects mentioned includes:
Using NORA’s online search function yields almost no hits for these terms. This raises the question of whether NORA is still connected to the community of managers who are in the process of digitising the government.
Despite the great interest in NORA, I think that some important changes must be made for architects to provide managers, administrators and CIOs with the right advice for their organisations.
Here are four key improvements that can be made.
Let NORA return to being a reference piece or guide for enterprise and information architects, and ensure the nature of the principles and models are suited to these roles.
The strong desire to include managers and administrators would be better met with a document specifically tailored to this demographic – something short and accessible that appropriately supports decision making.
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