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REAL Talk With Sam Holcman — 253 episodes · page 1 of 3
Is Enterprise Architecture Dead? Sam Holcman and Omar Gawad
AI and Grey Beards
EACOE - The Seven Key Differentiators
Certified in EA or BA But Not Competent
Rethinking enterprise AI: Why small models fit big organizations
Ford’s New EV “Assembly Tree” - What It Means for Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
A Manifesto for the Professionalization of Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture Briefing - May 2026
From Semantic Hubs to Enterprise Augmented Intelligence™: The Missing Step in Agentic AI
Purchased Models, Off-the-Shelf Ontologies, and Why Everything Old Is New Again
Your AI Problem Is not Data Debt – It is Executive Relevance
You are Flying Atlas V Missions in a New Glenn World
Why Poor Data Foundations Undermine AI Success
Coffee Grinders - Certifiers - and Real Practitioners
Process Visualization: A Best Practice Blueprint for Reworking Processes Before AI
Palantir's Real Secret Sauce - Ontologies
The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in EA/BA
Ontology in AI: The Hidden Skill That Makes Architecture and Your Career Work
Business Architecture - Belonging to a Club or Practicing a Discipline
How to Help the CEO Understand Enterprise and Business Architecture - Without Losing Your Job
What Is In and Out In Enterprise Architecture (EA) In 2026 From Exams to Practice
Having A Lot of Data Is Not the Same as Having AI Ready Data
LLMs Copyright Infringement as a Service
What is In and Out in Business Architecture (BA) in 2026: From Exams to Practitioner Certification
Why You Can't Modify What You Have Not Done: Absurdity of Theoretical and Book-Learned Architects
Still Doing Architecture Principles
How to Get Your Enterprise Ready for Agentic AI
The Real Cost of Standing Still
The Key Enterprise Architect and Business Architect Survival Skill for 2026: Critical Ignoring
LinkedIn Posters: An Analysis of Internet Personas
AI Fabrications, Context, and LLMs
Practitioner Certification Transformation: from Multiple Choice Exams to Demonstrated Competency
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
The 47 Second Enterprise: Why EACOE and BACOE Design for Human Attention
Yes, you CAN begin Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture Next Monday Morning
What Makes a Great Enterprise Architect or Business Architect
Irrational Exuberance and the AI Mania: Are We Living Through a Bubble?
Why TOGAF® Needs a Refresh
When Software Eats Itself
EA and BA Advice – How Can You Determine How To Best Spend your Time and Money
Agentic AI, EA 5.0, and EACOE
No I Will Not Peg My Biz on AI!
Data Center Growth – Good or a Waste
To-Be Models and As-Is Models – Which Always Comes First
Thought Leader – Thought Mimicker – Cult Follower: Who are you actually hearing?
Data for AI - Building New Age Architecture
AI and REAL Enterprise Architecture
Why Real Enterprise Architects and Business Architects Ignore the AI Hype Machine
Prompt Engineering or Prompt Manipulation - A Critical Look at How We Shape AI Responses
The Executive and CIO’s and Your Risks of Over-Reliance on AI in Enterprise Architecture
Human Consume-ability of EA and BA Deliverables
Moving from AI to OI
Learning from Information Technology Implementation Failures
The Danger of AI – Anything you say to AI can be used against you
Today’s AI – Just Guessing
Commentary - AI Has a Safety Problem – This Is How to Manage It
Buyer’s Remorse: When an Enterprise or Business Architecture Certification Isn’t a Great Fit
What Opportunities or Problems is AI Trying to Address?
Understanding Both Sides of AI's Use in Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture’s Gobbledygook
Power of Architecture: Shaping Progress from the Industrial Revolution to Enterprise Transformation
Success with AI starts with quality data – any questions?
The Hidden Risks of “Initial Cost First” in Enterprise Architecture Training and Certification
The Newest Click-Bait – Artificial Intelligence
The Four Types of People We Interact With
Comparing the Agility of a Salad Bar and the EACOE Enterprise Architecture Framework
Enterprise or Business Architect Certificate Planned Obsolescence: New Certification Version Impact
Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky and Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
High Impact EA and BA Trusted Architects (HITA) vs. Certified In Name Only (CINO) - Which Are You?
Capability and Ability – They Are Different
What is a “Standard” in Business and Technology?
The B.A.I.T. Models Missing Silo – People
Intellectual Property Terrorism – The Enemy from Within
AI Chatbots Caused Quality Drop – Hiring Human Workers Again
Small Language Models – Enterprise Augmented Information (EAI) – the Time is Now
The Purpose of Business or Enterprise Architecture? The Baseline for Change
An Architecture Model No One Uses Is Just Cosmetology
TOGAF® and Wikipedia – Take A Look
Thinking before Deploying AI and LLM’s
AI Training Data - Both Digital File Cabinets and Digital Trash Cans are in the Learning Experience
EA and BA Training: A Necessary Partnership Between HR Organizations and EA and BA Departments.
Tariffs, Reciprocal Tariffs, and Subsidies – Oh my!
Enterprise Architects: Be Careful – Do not develop new “silos"
The Windows Phone - time for a second attempt?
The True Value of AI is in the Data
TOGAF - Frameworks and Methodologies
The Imperative for One Enterprise Architecture Framework
How Many Initials After Your Name
Ban the Term User
Year 2038 - Get Going Today
Operations Evaluation and Optimization - First Process, Then Technology, Then People
Zombie Software and Hardware - Do you have these vulnerabilities
Data and AI - The Questions to Ask
Educate Demonstrate Train - They Are Different
Business Architecture - A Distinct Discipline from Enterprise Architecture
AI and Software Development - Still Stuck in Maturity Level 1
EA and BA Failures - Lessons from Strategic Intelligence Blunders
The Thirst for Ease
Beyond The AI Algorithm
General Motors and Software Development History from 1984 to Today