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 […]
Strategy Planning
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. …
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Designing an Enterprise-ready Framework for Retail Loss Monitoring
By Pranit Prakash Overview Retail surveillance has evolved significantly over the past few years. What was once largely a CCTV-led, reactive monitoring capability, is now becoming a broader operational intelligence ecosystem. Cameras remain a […]
Business Models Should Drive Every Context View and Decision
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Most architects treat the context view as a technical artifact. Draw the system box. Add some arrows. Label the external systems. Done. But a context view that isn’t anchored […]
Key Considerations When Allowing a Vendor to Train Its AI Models on Customer Data
By Katrina Slack and Vito Petretti Most services agreements for vendor-provided technology services contain standard provisions allowing vendors to use customer data and data generated through the provision of services to improve and enhance service […]
What Corporate Leaders Misunderstand About Cybersecurity Frameworks
By Steve Durbin, Chief Executive, Information Security Forum Cybersecurity frameworks help, but a framework turned in for a score feels more like a report card than an improvement path. On paper it can look well […]