Data, Agents And Governance: Why Enterprise Architecture Needs A New Playbook
CIO, Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Facing an existential crisis, enterprise architecture must abandon outdated dogma for AI-driven adaptive governance to ensure survival and deliver value.
In 'Data trust and the evolution of enterprise analytics in the age of AI,' I addressed the foundational role of trusted data and why governance is so crucial to playing a role in establishing it. What I didn't explore was the background role of enterprise architecture (EA) in potentially being unintentionally complicit in the problem, despite its capacity to be a bigger part of the solution and, more importantly, how it can evolve to make a difference.