Defining a Social Architecture
Social architecture is a part of The Gill Framework for Enterprise Service System Adaptation. This blog post defines the concept of social architecture to support the other domain architectures specified in the TOGAF 9.1. "Drawing on the ISO/IEC 42010 architecture definition, a social architecture can be defined as the fundamental concepts or properties of a social system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution. Social architecture refers to social structure, behavior, culture, knowledge and opinions of communities of people (e.g. communities of practice beyond the boundary of a single enterprise) that influence the desired behaviors within/outside the operating environment of an enterprise. Social architecture is all about “social communities”, which plays an important role in the ongoing smooth operations, improvement, growth and transformation of an enterprise. The failure or success of a change initia