When faced with massive, unstructured corporate repositories, systems architects frequently overcomplicate the initial organization of information.
Teams attempt to build hyper-complex, deep classification trees or rely entirely on unmanaged machine learning algorithms to sort the chaos.
Effective information design begins with fundamental human dimensions:
- ▶️ Spatial and geographical attributes: Separating physical and administrative location logic from functional domain concepts.
- ▶️ Temporal parameters: Categorizing time-sensitive business rules independently from core asset descriptions.
- ▶️ Physical extent and scale: Grouping information assets by explicit size, scope, or structural tier.
By slicing complex domains across broad, independent facets, you eliminate orphan terms, simplify system navigation, and create an organized highway for your enterprise data.
Stop forcing complex corporate logic into arbitrary pyramids. Keep your vocabularies broad, shallow, and multi-faceted.
– Joseph Busch
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