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Intermediate to Senior Leaders3-4 hoursAI horizon scan + strategic implications analysis + preparation roadmap

What's coming in AI — multimodal models, on-device AI, open-source momentum, protocols, regulation, and the shift to AI-native organisations. See around the corner without falling for hype.

...Unacceptable risk Banned Cannot be deployed High risk Allowed with strict obligations Conformity assessment, documentation, monitoring Limited risk Transparency required Disclose AI involvement Minimal risk No...

Half DayIntensive

Horizon ScanDeliverable

Future of AI AI Trends Multimodal AI AI Regulation Emerging Technology View Details

Data & AI Direction

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursData and AI direction framework + AI readiness assessment + governance overlay

How data strategy and AI direction connect to architecture — covering data quality, governance, data architecture for AI, AI enablement, responsible AI, data products, data mesh, and building a data and AI roadmap.

...and access endpoint. Trustworthy — quality metrics published; SLA defined. Self-describing — schema, documentation, and usage examples. Interoperable — follows standards for format and access. Secure —...

1.5 DaysIntensive

CurrentSA · EA · TS

Architecture Data Strategy AI Data Governance Data Mesh Data Products View Details

Emerging Technology Scanning

All levels — SA, EA, TS3-4 hoursTechnology radar template + horizon scanning process + hype vs signal evaluation criteria

How to monitor what is coming, filter signal from noise, and make deliberate decisions about when and how to adopt new technologies — before being forced to react.

...Success → Adopt (full governance) → Declining → Hold (migration governance). At each transition: increase documentation requirements, increase review frequency, increase compliance scope, decrease freedom to...

Half-dayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Technology Radar Horizon Scanning Innovation Strategy View Details

Requirements, Constraints, Trade-offs & Compromise

All levels — SA, EA, TS5-6 hoursTrade-off framework + constraint register template + requirements classification guide

The art of making the best possible architectural decision given what is required, what is constrained, and what must be sacrificed.

...choice, and consequences — so that future teams understand not just what was decided, but why. What documentation provides: Context — what was the situation when this was decided? Options — what alternatives...

1 DayIntensive

PracticeReal decisions

Architecture Foundations Requirements Trade Offs Decision Making View Details

Why Architecture Exists

All levels — SA, EA, TS3-4 hoursArchitecture purpose framework — complexity · alignment · risk · change · shared understanding

Why architecture exists — managing complexity, aligning technology with business, reducing risk, enabling change, and creating shared understanding across teams.

...an architectural model, they build systems that reflect their silos — not the business. Architecture documentation isn't bureaucracy. It's coordination infrastructure. Architecture is the shared mental...

Half-dayIntensive

PurposeWhy it matters

Architecture Foundations Complexity Business Alignment View Details

AI Policy, Security & Organisational Controls

Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI policy checklist + security controls map + incident response starter template

Building and enforcing AI policy — the practical mechanisms that turn ethical principles into enforceable organisational rules. Data security, access controls, audit trails, and incident response.

...decisions; right of explanation documented EU AI Act High-risk AI systems require conformity assessment, documentation, human oversight Risk classification, conformity documentation, human oversight controls...

1 DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo legal background required

AI Policy AI Security Organisational Controls AI Governance Data Security Compliance AI Fluency View Details

Risk, Compliance & Control Points

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursRisk and control register template + compliance mapping guide + architecture risk heat map

How architecture manages technical risk and meets regulatory obligations — covering architectural risk analysis, compliance by design, privacy by design, security controls as decisions, operational risk, control points, and demonstrating compliance through architecture.

...is managed Identify, verify, own Compliance demonstration Artefacts as evidence Design audit-ready documentation How to know if this landed You'll know this has landed when someone stops treating security...

1 DayIntensive

CriticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Risk Compliance Security Governance Control Points View Details

Roadmaps & Transformation Sequencing

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-7 hoursRoadmap template + transition state design guide + sequencing logic + dependency overlay

How to build multi-year transformation roadmaps that sequence architectural change realistically — accounting for dependencies, capacity, risk, and the fact that the organisation must continue operating while it transforms.

...maintained? → Book a Training Session or → Contact me directly 1.5-day workshop includes current state documentation — honest assessment of where you are, target state definition — driven by business strategy,...

1.5 DaysIntensive

StrategicSA · EA · TS

Architecture Roadmap Transformation Sequencing Strategy Delivery View Details

What Architecture Is

All levels — SA, EA, TS3-4 hoursArchitecture definition canvas + what it is / what it isn't reference card

What software and enterprise architecture actually is — its structure, relationships, and decisions — and what it is not. No diagrams. No jargon. Just clarity.

...decision it represents — is always the moment things click. People stop treating architecture as a documentation exercise and start treating it as a decision discipline. The architecture reading exercise...

Half-dayIntensive

FoundationFor all roles

Architecture Foundations Decision Making View Details

AI Knowledge Systems — RAG, Search, Memory & Internal Knowledge

Intermediate4-5 hoursKnowledge system map + RAG decision framework + memory design checklist

Many useful AI systems are not smarter because the model is smarter. They are smarter because the system can retrieve, search, remember, and ground itself in the right knowledge at the right time.

...make the disorder queryable. Sometimes the real problem is not retrieval but process, ownership, or documentation quality. A useful rule of thumb: build knowledge systems when current, internal, or evidence-sensitive...

1 DaySystems Thinking

Knowledge DesignPractical

RAG Search Memory Knowledge Systems Internal Knowledge View Details

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