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Enterprise architecture works best today when it borrows start-up habits — testing fast, learning quickly and scaling what actually delivers value. In an era defined by rapid innovation, shifting ...

Better models won’t fix your enterprise AI failures. The real shift happening now isn’t just that AI processes more data to improve reasoning, but that AI understands enterprise context and makes ...

In my first article for Forbes, I asked whether Enterprise Architecture (EA) was completely broken. My conclusion: executives seeking digital transformations of their organizations require a more ...

"City planning" is an easily understood metaphor that architects can employ to communicate more effectively the nature and value of architecture by relating the "unseen" enterprise architecture to ...

Among the many buzzwords or common phrases used in business, “blueprint” is on the list. In many cases, the word serves as a great visualization for how a company wants to structure teams, processes ...

Like many midsize companies, my organization realized at a certain point that its IT systems were becoming a major cost burden that needed controlling. We had around 1,000 applications, mostly owned ...

The capabilities of Inductive Automation's Ignition software platform showcase a good example of how manufacturers can create an enterprise architecture for optimizing production processes, improving ...

A fundamental axiom of security is that we can never drive risk to zero. In other words, perfect security is infinitely expensive. We must therefore understand our tolerance for risk and our budget ...

In the world of real enterprises, enterprise architecture is a weak discipline. It doesn’t play a role of any real substance in most medium-large enterprises, which are exactly the enterprises that ...