Samuel Holcman

Managing Director of EACOE and BACOE | Host of "Real Talk With Sam Holcman." | Enterprise Architecture | Business Architecture | Soft Skills For Architects

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It is more than "business continuity." It is more than systems. It is more than "cloud first." It is more than agile programming. It is about becoming more proactive than reactive. It is about a contemporary approach to "what-if" that is much more than scenarios and simulations.

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Power of Architecture: Shaping Progress from the Industrial Revolution to Enterprise Transformation

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/gnMmqR7qRT

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Driving Efficiency and Innovation by Consistently Managing Complexity and Change: the Four Pillars of Holistic Enterprise Architecture (Architecture Models, Framework, Methodology, and Solution Models)

Read the full article: https://t.co/Q6ZuQ55OwN

Everything that exists has

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Cloud Computing is nothing more than running your stuff on someone's computer rather than your own. And just because it is in the cloud or "far away" - does not mean it is more secure. If you can connect to it, you can hack it.

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Learning from Information Technology Implementation Failures

There is also a lot we can learn from technology and software development “failures”.

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/rbEAJJo8GJ

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Architecture is about a contemporary approach to "what-if" that is much more than scenarios and simulations.

It is about having models that the business can understand and the potential effects disruptions will have on the business – not just the technology.

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: The Executive and CIO’s and Your Risks of Over-Reliance on AI in Enterprise Architecture

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/ZWMa1UDtk1

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Practitioner Certification Transformation: from Multiple Choice Exams to Demonstrated Competency and the effects on Recruiters.

More on Business Architecture: https://t.co/QlWAIlI6Om
More on Enterprise Architecture: https://t.co/d4cxjtJhvY

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It is wrong to approach constructing a 100-story business without a solid foundation or understanding of the end state. 20 stories are different from 40 stories are different from 100 stories. It begins with that foundation and desired state, which is true with business, too.

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Why TOGAF® Needs a Refresh

"In the age of EA 5.0, these critical ingredients are lacking. This broadcast will outline these ingredients that are lacking."

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/Og9bxs7UpK

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How to Stop Cheating in Enterprise and Business Architecture Certification. Read the full article on this link: https://t.co/L5RUtb7IZU

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Capability and Ability – They Are Different

Are we actually representing Capabilities or Abilities to our Stakeholders?

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/1Yh8VkIkUW

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: AI and REAL Enterprise Architecture

"The rush to 'AI everything' is exposing existing weaknesses"

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/DOBe7dZMmm

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Real Talk With Sam Holcman: The Danger of AI. Anything you say to AI can be used against you

Enterprise Augmented Information, AI within the boundary of your Enterprise is the answer.

Watch or listen to the podcast episode on YouTube, Spotify, and More: https://t.co/Zjpyx2MONx

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Architecture and assemble-to-order solutions are required to increase agility, respond to new business requirements, and react to continuously changing demands. Architecture is about reducing risk and time to market while increasing flexibility and agility and addressing change.

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Architecture is about developing a series of explicit representations that are understood by planners, executives, businesspeople, and technologists. We must remember that all organizations have an “Architecture” whether they have written it down or not.

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In this episode, we break down 39 distinct online personas that dominate LinkedIn, Twitter, and professional communities

LinkedIn Posters: An Analysis of Internet Personas - watch or listen here: https://t.co/QUzvMw2mhy

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SAP just fired a warning shot at the entire certification industry.

The multiple-choice exam and certification era is ending. The only question is whether your skills and your certification will be ready for what is coming next.

https://t.co/bC5LGwsRvw

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What is the right question to ask about AI in your enterprise?

It is not "Which model do we use?"

It is: "What architecture will that model be reading from?"

Watch the full session here: https://t.co/nANPEZZW6e

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“That makes sense.”

3 words most enterprise architects never hear from their stakeholders - yet that is exactly what Mohammed Khalil kept hearing when he used the EACOE approach in a complex, ever changing federated environment.

Listen or watch here: https://t.co/kBJNLJTHbr