The Agile Architecture Revolution / Wiley CIO (PDF)

A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional
vision for achieving business agility through agile
architectures

The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into
the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise
Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It
focuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placing
such organizations into the broader business ecosystem that
includes small and midsize organizations as well as startups.

* Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in
businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next
several years

* Presents the five broad organizing principles called
Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization
of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems
engineering

* Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in
conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and
mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve
better business visibility through IT and enterprise
architecture

Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile
architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise
sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations'
spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the
next ten years.