TRIVERGENCE

9The Executive Guide to the Era of Trivergence

The era of Trivergence is a defining moment in both business and technology history. We are amid a significant shift in the ways that businesses are organized, innovate, and create value. More specifically, it will redefine the relationships between shareholders, suppliers, producers, and consumers, resulting in more automated, less human-intensive processes than those that exist today. Traditional corporate structures, with their multilevel, inward-focused, hierarchical command-and-control systems, are no longer effective. Yet many businesses struggle to adapt to new ways of operating because they are constrained by traditional mindsets, legacy technology systems, and entrenched organizational cultures. Worse, because they lack vision of what their future architecture should be, and a plan to attain it, firms often perpetuate these legacy perspectives with each new investment.

This situation has created a “demand pull” for a new paradigm in enterprise architecture as we enter the era of Trivergence. Simultaneously, there is a “technology push” from these emerging technologies themselves. AI, empowered by a new generation of massively parallel reduced instruction set computers (RISC), can analyze vast amounts of data, discover new patterns and even insights, and make intelligent predictions. Additionally, AI can now recognize individuals by their facial geometry and walking patterns; generate coherent paragraphs, essays, and even ...