Agentic AI's Rise Is Making The Enterprise Architect Role More Fluid
CIO, Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
The CIO's key lieutenant has to become more business focused to better chart the business processes. It's a key requirement for successful agentic AI adoption, which, in turn, will drive greater agility.
In a previous feature about enterprise architects, gen AI had emerged, but its impact on enterprise technology hadn't been felt. Today, gen AI has spawned a plethora of agentic AI solutions from the major SaaS providers, and enterprise architecture and the role of enterprise architect is being redrawn. So what do CIOs and their architects need to know?
Organizations, especially their CEOs, have been vocal of the need for AI to improve productivity and bring back growth, and analysts have backed the trend. Gartner, for example, forecasts that 75% of IT work will be completed by human employees using AI over the next five years, which will demand, it says, a proactive approach to identifying new value-creating IT work, like expanding into new markets, creating additional products and services, or adding features that boost margins.