With the advent of the internet, LinkedIn, Facebook, Artificial Intelligence, etc., behind all of these are people. Well, who are these people, what are their “characteristics”, how do we recognize them, and who should we pay attention to? This broadcast outlines these types of people, with a bit of humor, yet serious tone.

We explore the analogy between the agility of a salad bar - where a chef or diners assemble custom salads from a variety of ingredients - and the use of the EACOE Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework and its elements to assemble business solutions, as opposed to traditional computer programming or coding.

This paradigm shift, from crafting each solution from the ground up to assembling from a menu of well-defined options, underpins modern approaches to both dining and enterprise technology.

Planned obsolescence in Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture certification takes on a unique - and often contentious form, when certifying bodies release a new version of a credential, effectively rendering previous versions less valuable or even obsolete, despite earlier assurances of permanence or lifetime validity. This scenario can have significant repercussions for certified professionals and organizations alike. One indicator of this phenomenon is a certification that is attached to a named and indicated certification version number.