In 1937, noted economist Ronald Coase penned a short essay titled “The Nature of the Firm.” Coase was trying to understand why companies had gotten very large as the industrial revolution first emerged and then began to displace our agrarian lifestyles.

In my last post, I discussed how the emergence of Internet technologies are driving down the cost to acquire, understand and act on information.  As a result, traditional processes for many enterprise architecture organizations are requiring a substantial rethinking of strategy.

In this post, we will explore new tools and light processes that traditional EA can use to take advantage of the emergence of Web 2.0 on the nature of today’s firm.