In this book, enterprise architecting experts Deborah Nightingale and Donna Rhodes offer a framework for enterprise transformation. Effective change, they believe, begins with a holistic approach, considering all facets of the enterprise and its environment instead of focusing solely using one factor-information technology, for instance, or organizational framework. This is architecting the future organization: creating a blueprint for what the enterprise can look like following the transformation.

Nightingale and Rhodes introduce the ARIES (Architecting Innovative Organization Strategy) construction, including a 10 enterprise element model and an architecting procedure model, and present how to apply it, from start to finish. They explain how to make a alternative vision for the future enterprise and how to generate ideas and choice architectures; they describe techniques for analyzing possible architectures, equipment for implementation preparing, and strategies for communicating with stakeholders.