Posts by Om Malik and Brad Feld inspired me to write (rant) my thoughts on business architecture and its meta role as digital business image. The post link with official excerpt:

Combat data (and decision) dirt with meta business architecture

If we are to classify contextless data dirt, this first case illustrates superfluous, distracting data. I posit that an equally insidious type of data dirt forms when data is analyzed without regard to origin, business-system and business goal contexts.