AI Architecture Governance & EU AI Act: Establishing architecture standards for legal compliance, auditability, and ethical use of high-risk AI.

Digital Sovereignty and Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Architecting resilient landscapes to mitigate geopolitical risks and vendor lock-in; focusing on EU Data Act and EUCS.

EA as the Digital Twin of the Organization (DTO): Leveraging the EAM model for advanced scenario simulation and measuring the real-time impact of business decisions.

Architecture for Generative AI (GenAI Engineering): Designing robust, scalable production architectures for RAG-based and GenAI applications (including MLOps).

Cyber Resilience by Design (NIS2 & DORA): Embedding Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and mandatory security standards into EA to ensure systemic resilience.

Composable Enterprise Architecture: Shifting to modular, component-based systems (Composable ERP) and scaling agility via Platform Engineering and APIs.

ESG-Driven Architecture & Green IT: Architecturally modeling and optimizing the carbon footprint of IT systems to support mandatory corporate ESG reporting.

Value-Driven EA: Portfolio & Legacy Decommissioning: Linking architectural maturity directly to measurable business value and accelerating the dismantling of costly legacy systems.

Data Mesh Architecture and Data Governance: Architecting decentralized data structures (Data Mesh) while maintaining a unified, federated data governance framework.

Continuous Architecture & Adaptive EAM: Evolving EAM into a continuous and adaptive process, fully integrated into agile and DevOps workflows.