Make You Think

Each of these five prominent thought leaders has a revelation to share in a time-boxed 10-minute sprint presentation. Share their unique insights in this forward-leaning session.

Digital and Business Architecture: Unsustainable or Unstoppable?
Mike Rosen

The digital economy requires quick, agile, flexible, but also thoughtful and fact-based decisions. Does unarchitected = unsustainable? Or, does business architecture enable speedy and intelligent decisions that create unstoppable digital platforms and strategies?

AI without IA?
Sridhar Iyengar

Machine Learning – especially Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning – have become very fashionable of late. It is indeed producing remarkable results. Hard not to get caught up in the excitement. You might be thinking you can do without Information Architecture (IA) and the like. Can you?  

What’s Your Survival Proposition?
John Zachman

If you cannot explain to me your proposition for survival in the Knowledge Age in the context of Physics, that is, Laws of Nature, I know you are banking on a miracle happening.  Here’s my proposition.

Keyboards are for Writing, not Programming
Paul Haley

When you can tell your machine what you want it to do, why would you need a programmer?  Perhaps because machines don’t understand what you tell them... yet.  As machines increasingly understand what they are told and read, how will business management and IT evolve?  

How to Implement a $1 Million system for $1 Billion
Dave McComb

It has become commonplace for system implementation projects to cost between $100 Million and $1 Billion. Commonplace yes, but almost universally unnecessary and risky. If they finish at all, it is usually for multiples of their original budget. Secret system integrator playbook? What if you just didn’t play by their rules?