architecture is political because an architecture (or a system) always ends up mirroring the organization that produced/operates it. A well-known fact in OB, an

architecture is political because an architecture (or a system) always ends up mirroring the organization that produced/operates it. A well-known fact in OB, and one reason why one wants to engineer (i.e. architect) the organization simultaneously with the system, otherwise you create silos or disjoint systems that can't talk to each other.