What Is In and Out In Enterprise Architecture (EA) In 2026 From Exams to Practice
2026-2-18 | 6 min.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is shifting decisively from theory-heavy, exam-driven certification to demonstrated, practice-based competence that delivers measurable business outcomes.
In: Practitioner-based paths that validate portfolios, scenarios, workshops, and demonstrable outcomes - certifying that you can architect, not just that you can pass an exam.
Out: Credentials earned solely by scoring above a cutoff on multiple-choice exams, which increasingly fail to differentiate between memorization and actual capability.
Having A Lot of Data Is Not the Same as Having AI Ready Data
2026-2-16 | 8 min.
Organizations have been stockpiling data for years, expecting that one day it will become a strategic asset. With generative AI, that moment has arrived - but without disciplined data practices, the promise quickly turns into frustration. The differentiator is no longer access to powerful models; it is the ability to shape, govern, and trust the data that feeds them, which is exactly the gap the AI Data Modeling Masterclass is designed to close.
LLMs Copyright Infringement as a Service
2026-2-13 | 6 min.
Let us start with the uncomfortable truth: large language models - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and their peers - are built on a foundation that looks suspiciously like “copyright infringement as a service.” These systems could not exist without consuming massive quantities of human-created text, images, and code. In another industry, that would be called derivative work. In AI, it is called innovation.
What is In and Out in Business Architecture (BA) in 2026: From Exams to Practitioner Certification
2026-2-11 | 6 min.
Business Architecture (BA) is undergoing the same transformation: away from framework-centric, multiple-choice exams and toward practitioner-based competence proven through real work, with BIZBOK/CBA®-style certification as a well-known example of the older model, not the only one.
Why You Cannot Modify What You Have Never Done The Absurdity of Theoretical and Book-Learned Architects
2026-2-09 | 7 min.
There is something absurd happening in enterprise architecture and business architecture today, and it is time we called it out.
People are passing multiple-choice exams… or cramming through a sixteen-hundred-page framework manual, and then being told, Now, go modify it. Customize it for your organization.
Modify it? Before you have ever used it? Based on what? That is not mastery. That is madness.
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