September 26, 2026 The Architecture We Cannot Afford to Automate Away As Agentic AI becomes more capable, architects are understandably concentrating on the architecture of the agents. How should they communicate? What tools should they access? What information should they retain? How much autonomy should they receive? How should multiple agents be orchestrated? Where should […]

September 29, 2026 Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organizations operate, innovate, and make decisions. Yet many business and technology leaders are still asking important questions: What can AI realistically do? How can organizations harness advances in AI effectively? And what capabilities are needed for successful adoption? The AI Adoption Explained Learning Module from The […]

September 27, 2026 An Executive Reflection on Modernization, Architecture, and the Integrity of the Enterprise Modernization rarely fails because individual initiatives underperform. It fails because no one is accountable for the whole. A recent trimalleolar fracture of my right ankle (a severe break)  I suffered (from a “daredevil” attempt gone awry) made that reality unmistakably […]

September 27, 2026 An orchestra is an extraordinary example of specialization. The violinist does not play the trumpet. The percussionist does not substitute for the cellist. The concertmaster has responsibilities different from those of the conductor. Each musician develops extraordinary expertise, yet virtuosity within the individual sections does not guarantee a great performance. Someone must […]

Enterprise Architects have always had a natural affinity for models. They help us simplify reality, expose relationships, manage complexity, and give stakeholders structured ways to understand the enterprise. As the original draft notes, “Architecture without modeling would be extraordinarily difficult.” But in today’s environment, the challenge is no longer a lack of modeling capability. It […]

Why Enterprise Intelligence Requires Architectural Clarity Artificial Intelligence is transforming how organizations access and apply intelligence. Generative AI can summarize documents, analyze information, create models, develop scenarios, generate requirements, identify patterns, propose alternatives, and produce content at extraordinary speed. Agentic AI goes further, enabling autonomous systems to interpret circumstances, plan activities, invoke tools, coordinate with […]

More Signal. Less Noise During a recent Enterprise Architecture class, I received an unexpected lesson in clarity from my hearing aids (due to decades of flying jet aircraft). They weren’t working well — voices sounded muffled, and understanding people required more effort than it should have. Frustrated, I removed them, and to my surprise, I […]

Why the enterprises that win may not be the ones with the strongest technology, but the ones with the strongest orchestration. For decades, organizations have pursued transformation as if progress were primarily a function of acquiring better technologies—new platforms, new applications, new infrastructure, new algorithms, and now, increasingly, new forms of artificial intelligence. The assumption […]

Roadmaps mature practices. Instrumentation matures outcomes. This essay argues that Enterprise Architecture creates its greatest value not by accumulating artifacts or advancing maturity for its own sake, but by deliberately instrumenting the enterprise so strategy, governance, execution, and adaptation can perform as one coordinated system. Large organizations rarely fail because they lack initiatives. They fail […]