Are you, unfortunately, a C.I.N.O. Architect?  Don't be mad or upset - do something about it.  Have you, as a hiring manager, now realized you have C.I.N.O. Architects in your organization rather than C.I.P. Architects.  Don’t be mad – do something about it.  Upgrade the skills required to actually develop Enterprise Architectures or Business Architectures. (C.I.N.O. – Certified In Name Only, C.I.P. Architects – Certified In Practice Architects.)

Have any "grey-haired" people in your Organization? Perhaps you should talk to them about the Silver Bullet already available in most Organizations - Mainframes and liquid cooling.  Rethinking Artificial Intelligence in the midst of a bit of a fade that already is present.

If you think you are too small to be affected by cyber-attacks, ransomware, etc. - please listen to this broadcast.  All are vulnerable to these attacks.  And we all need to look at the root cause of these attacks, rather than just pointing fingers at various actors.

What can we, as Enterprise Architects or Business Architects learn from observing the Olympic Games?  We will outline these lessons, and how we as Architects can gain skills, recognition, and satisfaction, by following these examples.

When you are working on a project with a group of individuals, there are four types/categories of individuals you  may encounter.  We will discuss these four types of individuals, how they can help or hinder a project, and also take a look at the most damaging of the type of person you may encounter - the cynical project manager.

It is time to spotlight essential concerns that demand CEO (and their equivalent title in Government) consideration.  There is an urgent need to bring key issues to the forefront of Leadership's attention.  The issue of the Century is Software Development Maturity.

Project Management, most notably in the Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture realm has become significantly more difficult and complicated.  We will describe the four project management approaches to these Architecture development efforts and the skills required in the post-November 2019 environment.  

Keeping with our tradition of bringing “human consumable” understanding of all things technology, we give you a nine minute overview of ChatGPT.  Let us remember what this is really all about – processing data.  With this technology, we are processing data faster.  The fuel is data.  What you need to be aware of is the data quality that is being processed.  What is the quality of the data being processed?

Do you really feel safe experimenting with AI right now?  I mean really safe?  The answer, at best, should be I am not sure.  Well, that is a good answer.  So, for $100 investment, plus approximately $40 a month, you can set up a completely independent environment and play all you want.  And maybe some of that playing around can then be translated into your production environment – personal or company.  Have a listen.

Yes, we are in the information age, and moving out of the internet age.  The key driver in the information age – the fuel/oil is data, that organizations can use to create information that has value.  Let us discuss these terms and the concepts of an Information Strategy.