The next tech advantage won’t come from AI alone. It will come from the ability to turn it into the physical world—through energy, chips, infrastructure, talent, and operating models built to make innovation work at scale. @McKinsey Link buff.ly/WBTnQUb via @antgrasso

If enterprise architecture makes you think of buildings, think again because it maps how business and technology fit together. EA shows the connections across the organization, so decisions are made with the whole system in mind, not one piece at a time. Microblog @antgrasso Digital transformation can improve how an organization works, but it also makes business and technology more dependent on each other. Enterprise architecture makes those dependencies visible before changes are made. Suppose a company wants to introduce same-day delivery. The business process may need to change. The order application may need new functions. Inventory data has to be available at the right moment, and the infrastructure must support the workload. That one business decision now touches process, application, data and infrastructure. Change one part and another may be affected. Replacing an application or moving a workload to the cloud can have the same effect. The technology decision sits inside a business system. Enterprise architecture gives you the map of that system, so you can see what depends on what before you change it. #EnterpriseArchitecture #DigitalTransformation

If you use AI to avoid thinking, you are going in the wrong direction. Use it to become more capable without giving up your judgment. AI can expand what you can examine and imagine. Let that additional capacity make you more curious, not more passive. Microblog by @antgrasso Saving time on routine tasks is useful, but accepting an AI output as a decision already made is another matter. Consider a team redesigning a customer service process. AI can examine patterns across many requests and suggest alternatives the team might not have considered. Good. Now you have more to evaluate. One proposal may reduce waiting times while making it harder for some customers to speak with a person. Would you accept that compromise? Ask AI to help examine the consequences, too. Then decide what better service means and which alternative to pursue. The responsibility for the outcome remains with people. #AIAugmentation #HumanCenteredAI