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REAL Talk With Sam Holcman

R.E.A.L. - Realistic, Enabling, Actionable, Logical. Every day we hear jargon and see writing from so-called “experts,” and we don’t know what we should follow and what we should avoid. Published practices aren’t always best practices!Listen to episodes from Sam Holcman’s radio show, webinars, and podcasts, Real Talk with Sam Holcman. Each episode gets to the bottom of what business executives, managers, practitioners, and staff actually need to create innovative solutions that deliver- no utopia

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05:30

What is Strategy?

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/21

In this first installment of What is Strategy, we will define what is Strategy.

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08:00

Questions to ask your EA or BA consultant advisor...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/18

We suggest eight questions that you ask your potential Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture Consultant/Advisor/Potential Hire, prior to spending hard earned money.

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06:49

Business Architecture Defined

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/17

We define Business Architecture, from a Stakeholder perspective and Practitioner perspective, and how Business Capabilities are developed and defined.

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05:45

Continuous Digital Transformation – The Move-Ahead...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/15

The latest published statistics are documenting a digital transformation failure rate of between seventy and ninety five percent. WOW! We suggest a “Succeed-Fast” approach that is Business-Goal aligned. Select areas that are most critical/important to the organization, which will engage the stakeholders directly due to their interest in a specific area. It does take a bit more “architecture”, as incremental transformation requires a baseline to ensure each increment amplifies the overall benefit

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06:15

Ontologies=Architecture Flows and Hierarchies =...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/14

Ontologies=Architecture Flows and Hierarchies = Implementation. It is not one or the other – it is both for Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture. If your Enterprise or Business Architecture efforts are not getting the results or recognition you believe should be there, it is highly likely that what are presenting is not architecture and is not human consumable. It is never too late to get on the Architecture track to add to the Implementation architectures you have in your portfolio.

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06:15

Causation, Contributing, Correlation, Coincidence. ...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/11

In the Artificial Intelligence – Internet Age, these four words are rarely discussed, yet they are extremely important when we read or hear something. How do you determine which one of these you are seeing, when a conclusion is drawn. Some real thoughtful analysis needs to be done.

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06:10

The Key Sentence and Key Step To Begin Digital...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/10

Unfortunately, studies show an alarming failure rate in digital transformation efforts. Our analysis indicates two contributing factors to this failure rate – no fully defined Goal for the digital transformation effort and beginning the transformation by documenting the current business state prior to first defining the desired business state and outcome.

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05:50

Laying the Foundation for your AI Environment

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/09

Yes, AI data is already a mess. The excuse phrase we use is AI is “hallucinations”. Well, another term to use is “mistakes”! But let us stop looking out the rear view mirror and look how we can harness the AI engine for our competitive advantage. How – by building out your data foundation. The right time to do this is when data starts coming in the door. Or the right time to do this is now! Enterprise Architect, Analyze, Design, Assemble solutions to order – the contemporary life cycle for

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06:30

R.E.A.L. Enterprise Architects – More Important Than...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/08

Federal labor statics now confirm an almost four percent month to month decline in host computer costs and server costs, while cloud services are increasing almost two- and one-half percent. Cloud computing as a default is no longer a strategy. R.E.A.L. Enterprise Architects have the ability to provide an analysis on a case-by-case basis, as to deployment strategies that balance cost effectively, with business value. Let us now demonstrate, as Enterprise Architects, how we can assist the business

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09:15

Reward-Risk Balance with Today’s Hyper Technology...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/07

The pace of technological innovations seems to be accelerating at a pace unseen before. Yet studies have indicated that seventy-five percent of respondents to a recent survey have a level of concern as to what they are hearing about these innovations. This broadcast outlines a balanced reward/risk approach as to analyzing these innovations moving forward.

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06:00

Digital Transformation – What End State Are You...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/05

There are several phases that we suggest organizations need to work though, to get to, what the organization considers is digital transformation. You sort of have a hint in this first sentence – what is the end state you desire to achieve through this effort. From that understanding, then look at business changes possibly required – especially process changes. Then go on to technology. Yes, there is a whole lot more! But this will get you started.

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06:00

China discussing internet time limit for those under...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/04

Flowing through the Chinese government is a proposal to restrict internet usage on mobile devices for those under 18 years of age. Those limits range from a 40 minute limit to those eight and under to two hours for those 18 and under. Additionally, no internet between the hours of 10PM and 6AM. Food for thought for those of us outside China. Have a listen to the details, and I look forward to hearing your comments.

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06:00

Postal Mail, Email, Links, Text Messages – and Security

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/03

I revived a real letter recently – yes, an envelope with a stamp and contents. I was not sure whether the envelope and some of the enclosed writing was handwritten, or computer generated. What did intrigue me was one of the notes that was in the content explaining why this organization used regular mail to get my attention. Have a listen and see what thoughts this generates.

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08:00

Questions to ask your EA or BA Instructor Before You...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/02

Do you actually know the credentials of your Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture prior to you parting with your hard-earned money, or your company’s money? Not just the organization they work for, but who will be providing you with the training and knowledge you need to be successful? This broadcast outlines just a few simple questions that you should be able to get answers to, in less than ten minutes of the instructors time, prior to your investment. Don’t regret your choice when

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06:00

Think Simple and Complete, Not Minimal or Just Enough

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/08/01

In the field of Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, some are trying to popularize the concept of just enough architecture or minimal viable architecture and resulting products. We suggest that underlying this trend is too much complexity in what is being represented – not level of detail, but its representation. This broadcast will describe simple and complete as what is desired (and human consumable!).

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07:00

Investigate Microsoft for Negligent Cybersecurity? ...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/07/28

A United States Senator – Senator Wyden – has asked the FTC, and DOJ to investigate Microsoft for its role in a previous cyber-hack and an email breach. I applaud this direction, but suggest that “picking” on Microsoft and looking at cybersecurity is, at most, only a start, and I may question that this is a good starting point. Let us do “root cause analysis”, for these incidents and others. We strongly suggest that it is the software industry that is “stuck” in Maturity Level 1 software

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06:00

Large data sources with bad data. Smaller data...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/07/26

Large bad data. Obviously not good and some have recognized this as “model collapse” – the bad data causes more bad data to be generated. Small bad data – nothing needs to be said here. Small (vetted, provenance-known) data – perhaps within your enterprise walls – perhaps the way to go, until large, good data that is used for training appears. When will this happen? I do not think this is on the horizon.

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06:30

Outputs and Outcomes - What are you producing from...

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/07/25

Outputs – something that is produced. Outcomes – the result of something. What is your “end state” that you are producing from your Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture efforts? What are your Stakeholders seeing? Outputs or Outcomes? If it is Outputs, perhaps listening to this broadcast will explain the reception you are getting. Words do have meaning, but so do Outcomes!

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07:00

Model Collapse and AI

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/07/14

There is a growing realization that AI large models are being trained on AI generated content. You may have to read this sentence again! In some circles, this is being called AI generated spam. And more of concern, as we enter the “political season” in the United States, the ease of which political disinformation, with AI generated disinformation will overwhelm legitimate sources. We suggest there is a way to address this and get a real competitive advantage with this technology.

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08:00

The Software Development Maturity Model

REAL Talk With Sam Holcman ·

2023/07/13

We describe the three maturity levels for organizations that write computer software and develop applications. Maturity Level 1 – Make to Order, Maturity Level 2 – Provide from Stock, Maturity Level 3 – Assemble to Order. Maturity Level three is the key to Enterprise Agility.

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