Gaining a competitive advantage through data and cognition: 2025 Edition
With cognition becoming ubiquitous and near costless, intelligence is no longer a layer. It’s the connective tissue of the business – and the foundation of a future-ready Enterprise Architecture (EA). The challenge lies in making sure it flows and scales seamlessly through business, data, applications, and technology (BDAT), creating a truly cognitive enterprise.
A continuation of our 2023 paper on Enterprise Architecture in the Gen AI era, the 2025 edition explores how to build resilient EA in a climate where AI is restacking the very knowledge economy. Amid rapid shifts and uncertainty, consensus still exists: those who embed AI and cognition into their enterprise architecture, founded on the core principal of value, will gain a lasting competitive advantage; those who treat AI as a peripheral tool will cede control of data, processes, and decision rights to others.
In this white paper, we explore:
- How forward-thinking organizations consider and design cognitive architectures to encompass the business, data, applications and technology layers
- The importance of integrating security, privacy, and ethics into your organization’s EA
- A cognitive structure-data framework, based on cognitive structure complexity (the use of Broad autonomous cognition vs. Narrow cognitive agents) and data type utilization (Highly structured vs. Contextual data), envisioned to help businesses identify their current cognitive posture and strategic trajectory.
- Competitiveness in the restacked era: combining architecture, cognition, and governance.
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