Orchestrating a Cure to Release Business-IT-Data Hostages
Business, IT, and data rarely connect. Transformative projects keep failing — and people quietly live with it. Bolt-on AI only deepens the trap. This book is the cure: one shared, living model of the company, supported by a new way of governing and software — and an honest reckoning with what changes for everyone after the release.
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The book moves through three acts — the situation, the release, and what comes after.
Business, IT and data rarely connect. Transformative projects keep failing — and people quietly live with it. Bolt-on AI only deepens the trap.
One shared, living model of the company — composable context, plain text in a vault — supported by a new way of governing and software. Agents read the model and act; documents become rendered views, not repositories.
Hard mental work for everyone. Power shifts as information stops hiding in silos. Roles change, the Roman-military hierarchy subsides, and the consulting-industrial complex will be shaken.
Underneath the arc: the model–execution gap disappears, data converges, real transparency to processes and data becomes possible, and organisations and roles change for good.
This is not a theoretical exercise. It is not an IT book, not a data management handbook, and not a business strategy manifesto in isolation. It is about all three — written in pragmatic terms, with hands-on guidance for leaders who are done with frameworks that look beautiful on slides and fail in practice.
The book comes out in October 2026 from Technics Publishing, the publisher of the world-known Data Management Body of Knowledge and many thought-leadership books on data, AI, and technology.
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Enterprise transformation advisor. Developer of the Orchestration Governance framework and the SDO concept. Decades across governance, data, IT strategy, and organizational design.
Co-developer of the SDO framework. Extensive experience in enterprise architecture and organizational transformation, in both leading consulting and global line management roles.
Contact: Kimmo.Kontra@definio.com