Living in the era of SOA and BPM, I come across a lot of books, articles and blogs that try to tell me how wonderful the world can be. When using a BPM-tool you are able to model and manage the business processes of your company. Flexibility is the keyword. Not only cutting and pasting on a canvas, but also copying to fulfill the popular "reuse" paradigm.
Of course these tools are nothing more than pencil and paper. The art of designing systems is quite another matter. The books, articles and blogs of these days don't tell you very much about the art of designing. We are suffering some amnesia...