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REAL Talk With Sam Holcman — 253 episodes
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
How and Who Writes your Software
Consultants - Not to be Feared
Moving the EA and BA Practice to Professional Status
The Next Silver Bullet is Already in your Organization
Think you are too small to be cyber attacked - think again
Learnings from the Olympic Games
The Four Types of People on a Project
The CEO and Software Development Maturity
Project Management Post COVID November 2019
Explaining ChatGPT in Nine Minutes
Setting up your Artificial Intelligence Sandbox for about $100
Data, Information, Information Technology, Information Management – let us take a look
What can Wayne Gretzky Teach Technology Personnel, EA’s. and BA’s?
The Attack on Google Search
Commentary on 5 Signs Your Agile Practices Will Lead to Digital Disaster
The Importance of the Number 7
Shadow AI – It is here and will make Shadow IT look like child’s play
Rethinking the Cloud First Approach
The Deliverables String Test
Selecting an Enterprise Architecture Methodology; A Ratings and Evaluation Handbook
Enterprise Architecture Definitions – the What Definition and the How Definition
AI and Lawsuits – A Brief Status Report
Cloud Provider Hacked? Now what?
Overhyped Technologies or Marketing – Which is it?
What is Strategy? Part 4 – Begin with One Sentence.
What is Strategy? Part 3 – Fool’s Gold
What is Strategy? Part 2
What is Strategy?
Questions to ask your EA or BA consultant advisor prior to engagement
Business Architecture Defined
Continuous Digital Transformation – The Move-Ahead Alternative
Ontologies=Architecture Flows and Hierarchies = Implementation
Causation, Contributing, Correlation, Coincidence. Four Very Different Words!
The Key Sentence and Key Step To Begin Digital Transformation
Laying the Foundation for your AI Environment
R.E.A.L. Enterprise Architects – More Important Than Ever!
Reward-Risk Balance with Today’s Hyper Technology Innovations
Digital Transformation – What End State Are You Trying To Achieve
China discussing internet time limit for those under 18 years of age.
Postal Mail, Email, Links, Text Messages – and Security
Questions to ask your EA or BA Instructor Before You Enroll.
Think Simple and Complete, Not Minimal or Just Enough
Investigate Microsoft for Negligent Cybersecurity? Or do root cause analysis.
Large data sources with bad data. Smaller data sources with good data. Which is better?
Outputs and Outcomes - What are you producing from your Architecture Efforts?
Model Collapse and AI
The Software Development Maturity Model
Patch the Patch, and we spend our time and money doing this.
Hackers already are attacking EV charges – so what is new?
Think Simple and Complete, not Minimal
Computer Hardware Compute Capabilities and Software Development Advancements
Confirmation Bias in Artificial Intelligence Solution Selection
RightSourcing - Making Sourcing Decisions Based on Optimizing Achieving Organizational Goals
The Architect Roles In An Enterprise
The Fuel for the Internet/Knowledge Age Is Data, and Who Owns The Data Is Front And Center
Digital Transformation – Going on Fifty Years?
The Key Skill for Business Architects and Enterprise Architects
Cloud Computing and In House Computing - The New Reality
The Six Questions To Ask When Hiring A Consultant, and One That Is A Waste Of Time
Leveling the Playing Field Between Content Producers and Content Outlets
What questions do you need to ask when looking at new technologies?
Paid Information Sources or the Public Internet
AI Writing Your Code? You are still in Maturity Level 1
Eight Famous AI Disasters (Plus One)
Google AI Bard Privacy and Use Statement and Best Practices
EA and BA Multiple Choice Exams - the time has come to end this practice
What Data are AI Engines Being Trained On?
Artificial Intelligence HAL 9000 and Risk
Best Practices Artificial Intelligence and the Internet
Agile Techniques, Cyber Attacks, and the Four C’s
Internet Research - The Past, and AI - The Present Part 2
Internet Research - The Past, and AI - The Present Part 1
If AI is Ill - We Need To Know What It Ate
Business Architecture – The Definition
AI and First-Mover - Advantage or Disadvantage
Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture Mistakes to Avoid
Can you really trust Artificial Intelligence?
Software, Technical, and Innovation Debt
Malware, Misinformation, and Disinformation – Oh My!
19 Tech Myths That Some People Still Believe
Business Architects and Enterprise Architects – are you getting the recognition you deserve?
Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture – Comparing and Contrasting
Knowledge Base and Methodologies - They are Quite Different
Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Framework - What is it?
Business Capability - What is it?
Enterprise Architecture - The Definition
Rationalized and Focused Artificial Intelligence is Beginning to Appear
AI and the Future of the Internet
AI Hallucinations - A New Way to Avoid Responsibility or Liability?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Words Do Have Meanings!
AI Engines - What are the Categories of Data used for Training?
Artificial Intelligence Components
R.E.A.L. Enterprise Architecture Defined (Realistic, Enabling, Actionable, Logical)
Cyber Security Root Cause Analysis – The State Of The Practice
Optimizing and Streamlining IT for Business Agility
Enterprise Architects and Business Architects; do you have a seat at the ”Big Persons Table?’
Enterprise Architecture in the Era of Hybrid Cloud
Enterprise Architect Participants?
Business Architect participants?
Architecting to Create Business Agility to Compete in the Post Pandemic World
Applying Logic to Consumer Behavior in Times of Crisis
Data Driven Marketing – the Key to Digital Transformation
Distance Learning – The New Normal?
Focusing on the Here and Now – A One Day Exercise
Architecting for the Cloud and the Cloud Repatriation Movement
Moving From Crisis Management to Creating Resilient Organizations In Anticipation of the Next Crisis
Why Some People Revel In Complexity
Applying Enterprise Architecture to Identify Cost Containment and Optimization Opportunities
Applying the EACOE and BACOE Architecture Methodologies to Analyze the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic
Improve Your Company’s Enterprise Architecture Health - Obtain an Independent Assessment
An Introduction to Process Distribution Centers ™ and Data Distribution Centers ™
Process Mining the Complement to Data Mining
Luke Peters On The Hard Part of Digital Transformation is Organizational Change
The Status of the Cloud Revolution
Security Architecture - What, How, Where, Who, When, Why
Mass Customization is in your hands - your stakeholders and customers also want this true agility
No One Really Wants An Enterprise Architecture
Business Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture - Join the Revolutionary Movement
Are You Making Decisions Based on Solid Data or a Data Swamp?
Top 10 Questions and Answers to DeMystify Enterprise Architecture
What Business Executives and Managers Need To Know about Software
In Search of a Search Engine
Artificial Intelligence - Perhaps Augmented Intelligence
Technical Debt – It Is Much More Than Just Technical
Your Business has an Architecture - do you know what it is? Part 2
Your Business has an Architecture, but do you know what it is?
The Critical Role of the Business Technology Collaborator/Partner
RightSourcing – Balancing Inhouse/Purchased Services and Software
Process Visualization Unlocking your Hidden Assets
Application Portfolio Rationalization and Optimization Strategies
Business Architecture Actually Developing Business Capabilities
Business Architecture - Identifying Needed Business Capabilities
Cutting Through Technobabble/Claptrap in Business and Technology
The Digital Transformation Mistakes to Avoid!
Enterprise Architecture – The How-To Methodology
Enterprise Architecture – what is it and what is it not, actually
Enabling Business Strategy in the Hypercompetitive Digital World
Hyper-Competition – Going Beyond Digital Transformation
Cybersecurity – what you need to know
Human and Business Change is Hard - you need A.C.T.I.O.n.
Get over it – the hackers have won!
Big Data and Good Data and Enterprise Architecture
Moving To An Agile Digitally Transformed Strategic Enterprise
A Rational Approach to Government Contracting
Digital Transformation and Continuous Change is here!
Fostering State Government Tech Excellence - Getting to know NASCIO
Soft Skills - What are they and do I need them - YES!
The Hard Part of Digital Transformation is Organizational Change
Moving from the Internet Age to the Information Age: Part 3
Moving from the Internet Age to the Information Age: Part 2
Moving from the Internet Age to the Information Age
Setting the Stage for the 2020 Enterprise and Beyond
Data Driven Marketing – the Key to Digital Transformation
Distance Learning – The New Normal?