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R.E.A.L. - Realistic, Enabling, Actionable, Logical. Every day we hear jargon and see writing from so-called “experts,” and we don’t know what we should follow and what we should avoid. Published practices aren’t always best practices! 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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Signup to Generate a PitchR.E.A.L. - Realistic, Enabling, Actionable, Logical. Every day we hear jargon and see writing from so-called “experts,” and we don’t know what we should follow and what we should avoid. Published practices aren’t always best practices! Listen to episodes from Sam Holcman’s radio show, webinars, and podcasts, Real Talk with Sam Holcman.
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman is hosted by Sam Holcman. The show has published 253 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Architecture Leads Change. Making Architecture Matter Ep. 4" (23 September 2026, 55 minutes), "Enterprise Architecture (EA) Got Hijacked..." (16 September 2026, 44 minutes), and "Is Enterprise Architecture Dead? Sam Holcman and Omar Gawad" (9 September 2026, 52 minutes).
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 16 minutes across 253 episodes.
Booking probability for REAL Talk With Sam Holcman is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. REAL Talk With Sam Holcman requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. REAL Talk With Sam Holcman's contact route on record: verified email.
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Sam Holcman hosts REAL Talk With Sam Holcman, a business podcast with 253 episodes published.
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REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
The Analyst Architect and Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Is enterprise architecture still relevant in the age of AI, or is it dead? In the first episode of Making Architecture Matter, Samuel Holcman argues it matters more...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
The Analyst Architect and Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Is enterprise architecture still relevant in the age of AI, or is it dead? In the first episode of Making Architecture Matter, Samuel Holcman argues it matters more...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
The Analyst Architect and Real Talk With Sam Holcman: Is enterprise architecture still relevant in the age of AI, or is it dead? In the first episode of Making Architecture Matter, Samuel Holcman argues it matters more...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
I began my career in 1972, and we were called Data Processing. What we were doing in 1972 was processing data. Today, we are called Information Technology, or the AI Division, or whatever. And do you know what we are...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
What has your team been able to hand to a business leader from your TOGAF or other enterprise architecture work, that they could read and make a strategic decision from, without an architect in the room to explain it?"...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
Why Record Numbers of Enterprise Architects and Business Architects Are Still Failing Stakeholders The enterprise architecture and business architecture professions face a disturbing paradox. With certifications...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 small language models...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 fundamentally...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 exams for...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 AI at scale. Recent...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 organizations rush to...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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. The latest version...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 is truth in that...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 remarkable just...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 after proof of concept...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 only partially read...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 step is not to...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 into a strategic...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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” projects that quietly...
REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
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 consistent as we...
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