REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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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 required.
This business podcast provides practice-based insights into business transformation, enterprise architecture, business architecture, organizational transformation, and technology transformation based on real-world practices. We provide you with insights that can provide true value to organizations and individuals that face today’s and tomorrow’s competitive pressures and provide a usable takeaway from each program.
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Certified in EA or BA But Not Competent
Why Record Numbers of Enterprise Architects and Business Architects Are Still Failing StakeholdersThe enterprise architecture and business architecture professions face a disturbing paradox. With…
Rethinking enterprise AI: Why small models fit big organizations
The InfoWorld article “Small language models: Rethinking enterprise AI architecture” argues that as large language models (LLMs) hit limits of scale, cost, and risk, enterprises are shifting toward…
Ford’s New EV “Assembly Tree” - What It Means for Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
Ford’s new electric truck program is being called its “Model T moment” – not because it’s just another vehicle, but because Ford is tearing up a century of manufacturing practice to build something…
A Manifesto for the Professionalization of Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture are at the same inflection point that software engineering has reached. When a field confuses vocabulary for competence, titles for capability, and…
Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture Briefing - May 2026
Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Architecture (BA) have moved decisively toward the center of enterprise transformation in the last 30 days, especially as organizations try to operationalize…
From Semantic Hubs to Enterprise Augmented Intelligence™: The Missing Step in Agentic AI
In a recent CIO article, by Martin De Saulles, “How effective are semantic hubs in moving agentic AI forward?” the authors argue that semantics are now the backbone of enterprise AI, especially as…
Purchased Models, Off-the-Shelf Ontologies, and Why Everything Old Is New Again
This topic is one that should sound familiar to anyone who has been around enterprise architecture, transformation, or banking, as one example, for more than a few years: everything old is new again.…
Your AI Problem Is not Data Debt – It is Executive Relevance
There is a lot of noise right now about Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, and one phrase you have probably heard is this: “Your AI strategy will fail if you do not fix your data debt.”Now, there…
You are Flying Atlas V Missions in a New Glenn World
I want to talk about legacy thinking.Not old thinking. Not wrong thinking. But thinking that was right - sometimes brilliantly right - and then calcified into doctrine.Look up at the sky. Something…
Why Poor Data Foundations Undermine AI Success
Organizations are learning a costly lesson: AI does not fail first because of the model; it fails because of the data foundation beneath it. More than half of generative AI projects were abandoned…
Coffee Grinders - Certifiers - and Real Practitioners
Let us be honest - most Enterprise Architects and Business Architects start the day the same way.You roll out of bed, scroll through overnight emails, open at least six tabs of frameworks you will…
Process Visualization: A Best Practice Blueprint for Reworking Processes Before AI
CIOs are under intense pressure to harness AI to drive efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage - but as a recent CIO article states on reimagining business processes makes clear, the first…
Palantir's Real Secret Sauce - Ontologies
If your AI and analytics investments still feel like disconnected projects instead of an enterprise capability, this episode of Real Talk with Sam Holcman shows how Palantir quietly turned ontologies…
The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in EA/BA
If you are a CIO, CTO, or Architecture Manager, you are already paying an “architecture tax” you never approved.It shows up as overlapping platforms, programs that cannot finish, and “strategic”…
Ontology in AI: The Hidden Skill That Makes Architecture and Your Career Work
In both EACOE enterprise architecture and BACOE business architecture, ontology is the backbone: it tells us what kinds of things exist in the enterprise, how they relate, and how those meanings stay…
Business Architecture - Belonging to a Club or Practicing a Discipline
Welcome to Real Talk with Sam Holcman - where we stop confusing activity with progress and start talking about how businesses actually work.Today I want to talk about something touchy in the Business…
How to Help the CEO Understand Enterprise and Business Architecture - Without Losing Your Job
Many CEOs excel in vision, leadership, and financial acumen - yet remain only vaguely familiar with the disciplines of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Architecture (BA). They hear the…
What Is In and Out In Enterprise Architecture (EA) In 2026 From Exams to Practice
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is shifting decisively from theory-heavy, exam-driven certification to demonstrated, practice-based competence that delivers measurable business outcomes. In:…
Having A Lot of Data Is Not the Same as Having AI Ready Data
Organizations have been stockpiling data for years, expecting that one day it will become a strategic asset. With generative AI, that moment has arrived - but without disciplined data practices, the…
LLMs Copyright Infringement as a Service
Let us start with the uncomfortable truth: large language models - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and their peers - are built on a foundation that looks suspiciously like “copyright…
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REAL Talk With Sam Holcman has published 251 episodes since June 2020, covering topics in Business, Management.
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman is currently sporadic with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 8m.
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