Joseph Schiavone
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Will AI Eliminate Enterprise Architects?
Every few years, enterprise architecture (EA) faces an existential question. Agile development raised it. Cloud computing raised it. Product operating models raised it. Now AI raises it again. As generative AI and autonomous agents begin interpreting requirements, designing architectures, writing code, producing documentation, generating standards, and analyzing portfolios, architecture leaders are asking whether the profession itself […]
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How To Maximize Value — And Minimize Risks — Of AI Assistants In Commerce Software
As commerce vendors embed genAI assistants into their platforms, digital leaders must balance productivity gains against growing governance risks to ensure that AI-generated work remains visible, auditable, explainable, and aligned with organizational policies.
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Divestitures: You Just Sold A Load-Bearing Wall …
I’m Joe Schiavone. We’ve spent a few posts on inheriting a strategy that wasn’t built to bend and on a deal landing on a plane that’s still in the air. Today I want to flip the camera to the side of M&A nobody writes about, one I’ve lived. I’m talking about the sell-side here, the carve-out, that […]
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Governance: New Strategy, Old Hands On The Wheel …
You know the pattern: I show up, tell a story from a seat I actually sat in, and we get into what it takes to lead technology when the official playbook and the real one are two different documents. Today’s topic is governance, which I realize is not the word that makes anyone lean in. Nobody pitches “Let’s talk about […]
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Strategy: Batteries Required, Discipline Sold Separately (Part 2)
Welcome back! Last time, we cracked open the box and discovered that the “strategy” was really a stack of inherited decisions, held together with assumptions, good intentions, a few layers of duct tape, and the occasional vendor relationship nobody can fully explain. We watched it come apart under a divestiture, get reassembled in real time, […]
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Strategy: Some Assembly Required (Part 1)
I’m Joe Schiavone. Last time, we talked about roadmaps, remember? The best ones are built to come apart on purpose, with the goalposts already moving while you’re still drawing the diagram. A bunch of you reached out after that one (thank you, by the way), and the question that kept landing in my inbox was […]
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Roadmaps: Preparing To Self-Destruct In Three, Two, One …
I’m Joe Schiavone. I am a principal analyst here at Forrester. My experience has afforded me the opportunity to learn from some amazing leaders while developing my own style along the way. I have been leading tech for global organizations from PE-backed and startups to large global companies. My comparative advantage, and what has led […]