Episode 4 Architecture as the Missing Layer in Transformation

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Summary

Digital transformation continues to struggle—not because organizations lack technology, but because they misunderstand the real impediments to change. In this episode of Digital Transformation Architect, Dr. Darren Pulsipher revisits the foundational constraints of desirability, feasibility, and via

Intent

Introduce architecture as a governing system, not documentation. This is the conceptual pivot of the series.

Core Questions

What role should architecture actually play?

Why documentation-based architecture fails

How architecture governs coherence over time

Concept Flow

Architecture vs architecture artifacts

Architecture as decision constraint

Alignment across strategy, execution, and governance

Architecture as a continuous discipline

Preparing for ODXA as a response

Whitepaper Source

Section 4 (Architecture as Missing Layer)

Enables Later

Article: “Architecture Is Not Documentation”

Prepares audience for ODXA introduction

Bridges theory to structural solution