Shared Viewpoint Design Techniques in the Age of AI
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I remember the first time I watched two senior architects argue for two hours about a system design and realize at the end they had been describing the same […]
Agentic Process Transformation: A CIO Perspective
Dr. Magesh Kasthuri Introduction For many years, enterprise transformation was largely framed around digitization, cloud migration, automation, and data-driven decision-making. Those priorities remain important, but they no longer define the frontier. …
Author Interview – Kannan Subramanian R: Risk Adjusted Operational Performance
Author Interview: Kannan Subramanian RBook Title: Risk Adjusted Operational Performance From the…
Why Observability Data Often Fails to Reach Business Decisions
Most organizations have no shortage of observability data. What they often lack is a reliable way to connect technical signals with business outcomes. By Tatsiana Kakareka, Senior Solution Architect, IBA Group I have watched a […]
From Standard to System — The Open Footprint® JSON Schema Files
By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Sustainability and Market Development, The Open Group
Machine-Verifiable Schemas That Make the Open Footprint® Data Model Implementation-Ready
Standards are only as valuable as their ability to be put into practice. The Open Footprint® JSON Schema files bridge the gap between the Open Footprint® Standard’s logical data model and real-world technical implementation — providing machine-readable, validation-ready schema definitions that organizations can use immediately to build conformant emissions data systems.
Why AI Governance Must Move From Policy to Action Architecture
By Dr. Masayuki Otani AI governance is often discussed through policies, review boards, model evaluation, audit logs, and oversight processes. These are useful, but they are also incomplete once AI systems move from advice into […]
How Four Often-overlooked Forces Shape Architectural Decisions
Why the hardest problem in enterprise architecture isn’t technical at all By Nadzeya Stalbouskaya There’s a quiet truth most enterprise architects learn the hard way, usually a few years into a transformation programme that should […]
The Detail Behind the Data — The Open Footprint® Standard, Edition 1.0, Part 2: Data Element Dictionary
By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Sustainability and Market Development, The Open Group.
Your Complete Reference for Every Entity, Attribute, and Relationship in the Open Footprint® Data Model
If Part 1 of the Open Footprint® Standard is the blueprint, then Part 2 is the specification sheet. The Open Footprint® Standard, Edition 1.0, Part 2: Data Element Dictionary is where the abstract becomes concrete — defining every data entity, every attribute, and every relationship within the Open Footprint Data Model in precise, implementable detail.
The System Made Sense When We Built It
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global The system made sense when we built it. Three years later it is the thing we most dread working on. The database tables stopped reflecting how the business thinks […]
We Are Poised to Democratize the Noosphere
By Robert E. Furey As creatures emerge from the general biological stew, each develops some level of communication among conspecifics. For us, people, we can look at this as the combined but separate consciousness that […]
Principles by Machine: Why Speed Is Not the Same as Value
By Stuart Dee With the rise of large language models and agentic AI, the first instinct for many enterprise architects is an obvious one: how can this help us do our jobs better? It is […]
The Hidden Currency of AI: Why Tokens Make or Break Enterprise Systems
By Chiranjib Ghatak, Senior Enterprise Architect, Wipro | Dubai, UAE Last year, a financial services team I worked with built an AI-powered document assistant for their operations staff. It worked beautifully in testing. Then they […]