Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Isabella of Castile did not sail anywhere. She funded the expedition, weighed the risk, allocated the resources, and waited for a return. She was excellent at investment planning. Columbus, […]
Accenture has announced the hiring of Sripad Patil as Managing Director. The appointment adds an experienced enterprise architecture and transformation leader to the company’s senior leadership at a time when global IT services firms are […]
By Holt Hackney Llanos Cuenca is an associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and researcher with the Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP). Her academic work focuses on enterprise management, […]
By Alessandro Lanteri Organisations are starting to adopt AI agents to rethink how work gets done. The promise is compelling: redefine workflows and bring new adaptability, scalability, and precision to decision-making. Yet many deployments stall or [….
By Dmitry Borisov For most of my career, I measured success by the elegance of a PL/SQL package. The cleaner the logic, the tighter the exception handling, the better the architecture. That definition no longer […]
By Paul Preiss I had a conversation recently with someone running a small restaurant chain. Three locations. A loyalty system that does not talk to her inventory, a scheduling app that emails PDFs, and a […]
By Holt Hackney Arno Schilperoord, Director of Global Architecture & Innovation at Heineken, sits at the center of one of the world’s most complex digital transformation efforts. With responsibility spanning enterprise architecture and innovation m…
By Dr. Nikita Golovko, AI Architect, Siemens Your AI system may already have an architecture document. It lists the data sources. It describes models. It defines the KPIs the system is meant to improve. Someone […]
Viviana Echeverry is an enterprise architect and digital transformation leader whose work sits at the intersection of technology strategy, innovation, and business outcomes. Currently serving in a global digital enterprise architecture role at IKEA, sh…
By Paul Preiss I have been thinking about this one for a while. Mostly because I keep watching organizations spend enormous energy designing services and then wondering six months later why nothing changed. The business […]
By Vasily Yamaletdinov, Enterprise Architect, Raiffeisen Bank Over recent decades, the concept of a “business process” has been the cornerstone of any organization’s operating model, defining an ordered sequence of interconnected acti…
By Paul Preiss A new term has arrived in the software development conversation: spec-driven development (SDD). Tools such as Kiro (AWS’s agentic IDE, released 2025), spec-kit (GitHub’s open-source CLI, released September 2024), and the Tess…