Distinguishing between frameworks, methods, standards, and movements

In discussing the difference between frameworks, methods, standards, and movements, it is important to define each of them and also support those definitions with familiar examples. One of the related factors is the concept of systems thinking, where an IT service provider leverages a number of these based on their strategy and level of current maturity. The fact is that no one framework, standard, methodology, or even movement on its own would be enough to implement and maintain a thriving service management capability. The analogy would be that a favorite meal, or any meal, requires several ingredients to be part of the recipe. In keeping with the concept of systems thinking, a generally accepted definition of architecture is the interrelationship between systems (for example, business architecture, supported by IT service architecture, supported by application architecture, and so on) with systems simply defined...