Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
By Andrew Josey, VP, Standards & Certification, The Open Group
The TOGAF® Standard,10th Edition was introduced in April 2022, and expanded the material available to architecture practitioners making adoption of best practices easier. This article gives a roundup of the latest changes to the standard since its introduction, and the ecosystem around it.
Enterprise architects (EAs) are under pressure. The AI era is reshaping business models, accelerating transformation, and demanding new levels of agility. Yet many EA teams are struggling to keep up not because of a lack of frameworks or tools, but bec…
On July 1, 2025, M-Files — the enterprise content management (ECM) vendor — announced a deepening of its strategic partnership with Microsoft. M-Files will now use Microsoft’s SharePoint Embedded as its foundational document repository. M-Files diffe…
Shuhui Wang and Hirindu Kawshala analyze more than 14,000 earnings call transcripts to examine how CEO overconfidence impacts firm complexity. They find that overconfident CEOs tend to reduce complexity, often at the cost of long-term alignment, as ill…
Filip Lestan and Ruy de Quadros Carvalho analyze 249 Brazilian firms to assess how board structure influences innovation governance. They found that forming innovation-related committees is far more impactful than vision statements or rhetoric, enablin…
David F. Larcker, Amit Seru, Brian Tayan, and Laurie Yoler explore how AI could reshape boardrooms by enhancing the volume, quality, and timeliness of information available to directors. AI can reduce information asymmetry, support predictive analysis,…
Siah Hwee Ang calls for a shift in how executives engage with boards — not just as monitors or advisers but as long-term strategic assets. He advocates for structures that tap into directors’ expertise through agenda setting, follow-ups, and subcommitt…
Imagine a company called Garry’s Robots Ltd, which makes robots that clean your home. Garry’s Robots wants to add a capability for soap and water cleaning. To do so, they need to source waterproof materials and develop technology capable of recognizing surfaces where water-based cleaning is appropriate. But Garry’s Robots has a prioritization problem: Resources…
California-based Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC), a leading, multi-line program administrator that builds end-to-end insurance products utilizing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) engineering, data analytics, and predictive modeling, has hired…
In June, Gartner described the future of EA tools as “meta-tools” or platforms that extend beyond architecture into business intelligence, GRC, digital twins, and process modeling. The message was clear: success …
Bridging Strategic Ambition with Operational Coherence through Architecture-Driven ERP Transformation…
If you’ve already started to shift from project to product, you may feel stuck. You’ve made changes and introduced new ways of working, but maybe the outcomes haven’t changed in kind. In reality, many organizations report these kinds of results. The first sign of friction is often felt in the delivery pipeline: progress slows, feedback loops break down, and teams operate at odds with business goals.