Adaptive Enterprise Architecture

Build Strong Operating Models and Infrastructures for Successful Organizations
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-3986-3214-1
Verlag: Kogan Page Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture by Rubi Kaur is a practical guide for enterprise architects and technology leaders who need architecture to become a strategic, responsive capability rather than a static governance process.

Drawing on decades of experience, this book explains why traditional enterprise architecture practices are no longer enough in a world shaped by AI, complex organizational structures, ESG requirements, technology supply chains and geopolitical risk. The book introduces the FLOW model, a practical approach to building architecture that evolves alongside changing business conditions.

Through reflection prompts, practical experiments, practitioner interviews and real-world examples from financial services, telecommunications, the public sector and consulting, you will learn how to:

- Build adaptive architecture that evolves with business priorities - Orchestrate across business, technology, people and AI - Create agile governance that responds to changing conditions - Reimagine the enterprise architect as a strategic orchestrator - Navigate complexity, emerging technology and interconnected business risks

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture equips architects to operate in flow, strengthening strategic alignment, organizational adaptability and decision-making as technology and business conditions evolve.

Themes include: enterprise architecture, adaptive architecture, AI strategy, agile governance, technology risk, business transformation

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaur, Rubi

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Section - ONE: Why traditional enterprise architecture is no longer effective;
• • Chapter - 01: Enterprise architecture in crisis – when frameworks stop working;
  • Chapter - 02: The world after midnight – why pace has beaten the old model;
  • Chapter - 03: The end of gatekeeping – why the operating model has to change;
  • Chapter - 04: Beyond the castle walls – why enterprise boundaries no longer hold;
• Section - TWO: The ecosystems forces reshaping enterprise architecture;
• • Chapter - 05: AI at the edge of reason – architecting without certainty;
  • Chapter - 06: Navigating the cone of possibilities – holding multiple futures open;
  • Chapter - 07: Platforms, products and the flow of value;
  • Chapter - 08: The sustainability imperative – architecture, energy and planetary limits;
  • Chapter - 09: Ecosystems as the unit of analysis – from closed systems to open networks;
• Section - THREE: Enterprise architecture in FLOW;
• • Chapter - 10: F – Frictionless value across business and technology;
  • Chapter - 11: L – Living architecture, adaptive and evolving;
  • Chapter - 12: O – Orchestrated ecosystems, coordinated across boundaries;
  • Chapter - 13: W – With guardrails, continuous governance in motion;
  • Chapter - 14: The collapse of design and runtime – AI-augmented enterprise architecture in practice;
• Section - FOUR: The enterprise architect rewired;
• • Chapter - 15: From gatekeeper to orchestrator – rethinking governance;
  • Chapter - 16: Leading without control – influence across ecosystems;
  • Chapter - 17: Curating human and machine collaboration – working with new capabilities;
  • Chapter - 18: Decision-making in the flow – real-time judgement and trade-offs;
  • Chapter - 19: Ethics, trust and responsibility in an AI-driven world – balancing innovation and ethics;
• Section - FIVE: Architecture for a regenerative future;
• • Chapter - 20: Closing the gap – business, architecture and engineering aligned;
  • Chapter - 21: Regeneration over extraction – conscientious enterprise architecture decisions;
  • Chapter - 22: Understanding your role across ecosystems – putting it all together;
  • Chapter - 23: The long view – architects as stewards of tomorrow;

Über Autor(innen)

Kaur, Rubi
<b>Rubi Kaur</b> is a Chief Enterprise Architect and strategy leader with over 30 years' experience delivering large-scale digital transformation across financial services, telecommunications and the public sector. She has held senior leadership roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Vodafone, BT and HMRC. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS). <b><u></u></b>

Rubi Kaur is a Chief Enterprise Architect and strategy leader with over 30 years' experience delivering large-scale digital transformation across financial services, telecommunications and the public sector. She has held senior leadership roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Vodafone, BT and HMRC. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS).