Publications
What Is Life Architecture?
By Bob Ivkovic, Senior Enterprise Architect. The purpose of Life Architecture is to empower people to take conscious ownership of their lives by treating life not as something that happens to them, but as something they intentionally design. Life Architecture is an offshoot of Enterprise Architecture and was developed to help people reclaim ownership of their lives through intentional, personal design. It’s about replacing drift with direction, reaction with intention, and overwhelm with clarity—not by following cookie-cutter advice, but by constructing a custom blueprint that fits each person’s values, purpose, and vision.
Transitioning EA to LA
By Bob Ivkovic, Life Architecture is an adaptation of Enterprise Architecture and refers to the architecture of an individual’s life processes. Life Architecture is aligned with an individual’s personal goals, capabilities, and desires. It provides a structured approach for rationalizing an individual’s current life processes and translating a current state to a desired future state Life Blueprint. Life Architecture encompasses a set of principles, self-assessment behavioral techniques, process decomposition modeling, results and value chain modelling, and a deployment plan. Life Architecture represents a methodology to define, design, and transform an individual’s current life processes to a future state process understanding.
Life Architecture For Transforming Your Life
By Bob Ivkovic, When someone asks me what I do for a living, I simply give them the elevator pitch: “I’m like a marriage counsellor. I build relationships. I figure out WHAT people need to do to make positive change and WHY, followed by a game plan to determine HOW to optimize their business processes and computer systems. In a nutshell, I help people understand how they need to work together to effect positive change in their organizations.” The truth of the matter is that I’m an enterprise architect. This is a fancy term for someone who pulls together an organization’s business processes, work activities, data, applications, technologies and other organizational artifacts, and then reassembles them to meet business requirements in a more efficient and effective manner.
How to Have a Happier Life with Life Architecture
By Bob Ivkovic, Life Architecture could be the best thing you’ve ever done for yourself. I would like to think of it as a game changer, or more selfishly, a life changer. After all, we’re talking about radically changing your life. The challenge is that everybody is unique and no one else like you exists in the universe. We all have our own unique interests and aspirations in life. We all wear different fashion, do different jobs, hang out with different people, and live in different real estate. Some of us finally get a chance to build that dream home. This is probably the reason we hire an architect. An architect can design a house or palace that fits you. When it’s all done, you’ll get a place that reflects your lifestyle, family situation, and personal desires. What if you could hire an architect to design the life you want. Better yet, what if you could design and actually live it. That’s why we all need a Life Architecture to have a happier life.
Architecting Your Life
By Bob Ivkovic, When it comes to the discipline of life and improving our lives, we need a Life Architecture methodology to achieve a desired life. Life Architecture must be governed by a set of guidelines, practices, principles, concepts, conventions, assumptions, and rules – similar to an Enterprise Architecture methodology used by organizations – as we architect our lives. These constructs have evolved over many years as organization’s have strived for prestige and dominance. And we have borrowed and transformed them to provide a framework for Life Architecture. In simple English, a Life Architecture methodology is an approach to architect and enhance our lives.