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Architecting for Velocity, Trust, and Continuous TransformationDigital disruption isn't a storm to ride out; it's the atmosphere we breathe. Business models are fundamentally shifting, moving from product-centric to service-dominant. Technologies outpace systems before they've even rebooted. The pace of innovation outstrips the capacity of yesterday's systems to keep up.
Digital Momentum is your new playbook for thriving in this world of constant acceleration. Brice Ominski, a globally recognized enterprise architecture leader, draws on decades of hands-on innovation and insights from a worldwide community of executives and practitioners. The result is a practical yet visionary guide to building enterprises that evolve continuously, orchestrate intelligently, and scale trust across ecosystems.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
· Shift from episodic change to
continuous reinvention· Embed
trust, ethics, and explainability into intelligent systems
· Harness
semantic integration and governance fabrics for real-time adaptability
· Apply
composability blueprints that flex with changing environments
· Align the
C-suite around actionable, step-by-step guides· Navigate emerging frontiers-quantum, neuromorphic, and agentic systems-with confidence
Key Features·
Momentum that lasts - A maturity model for continuous evolution
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Governance that empowers - Oversight that builds trust in the AI era
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Ethics by design - Fair, transparent, and accountable systems from the start
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Blueprints you can use - Ten proven patterns with real-world examples
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Leadership clarity - An executive compass that connects vision to outcomes
This is more than strategy-it's a toolkit for CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, and technology practitioners navigating relentless disruption. Whether setting vision at the top or engineering solutions on the ground,
Digital Momentum equips you to thrive-and lead-with clarity, speed, and confidence.
List of contents
Introduction: Business First, Architecture Always: Escaping the Digital Transformation Trap. Part I: The Digital Inflection: Trends, Traps, and the Acceleration Crisis. 1. Future Resilience: Escaping the Transformation Treadmill. 2. From Integration to Understanding: Architecting Intelligence. 3. Beyond the Box - Architecting for Outcome-Centric, Service-Dominant Value. Part II: Foundations for Momentum - The Building Block for Future Resilience. 4. Dealing with Technical Debt: Legacy Modernization, Acquired Debt and the Way Out. 5. Postmodern Systems and Future Resilience. 6. Beyond Control: Executive Control for Service Economies. Part III: Future Resilience: System Archetypes and Meta-Frameworks. 7. A Meta-Framework: Systems that Endure and Evolve. 8. Composability in Context: Tomorrow's Systems Through the Lens of Foundational Properties. 9. Composing the Future - Building End-to-End Systems Through Composable System Design. 10. From Definition to Implementation: Composition Blueprints. Part IV: Dynamic Governance: Alignment, Trust and Continuous Value Delivery. 11. Composable Governance for a Continuously Evolving Enterprise. 12. Co Cover Insurance: A Future Resilient Service Company. 13. CoCover Insurance: Architecture in Action at CoCover Insurance. 14. CoCover: Maturity Assessment, Commentary and Cognitive Service Mesh. Part V: A Human View - Ethical Alignment, Agency and What Comes Next. 15. Ethical and Policy-Driven Architecture - Aligning Autonomy, Compliance, and Social Responsibility. 16. Beyond the Box - People in a Future Resilient Digital Momentum World.
About the author
Brice Ominski is a globally recognized enterprise architecture leader, author, and business technology advisor. He has guided organizations across industries through some of the most complex and high-stakes transformations of the digital era. An
inaugural board member of the Chief Architect Forum, Brice has been at the forefront of shaping how leaders worldwide connect strategy with execution and build enterprises that thrive in constant change.
Brice's career spans executive leadership, global advisory, and pioneering work in emerging technologies. He served as
Global CTO of Deepdive World, driving innovation and large-scale technology adoption for universities, credit unions, and global financial organizations. Earlier, at
Price Waterhouse's Emerging Technology Centre, he advised on
early AI adoption, contributing to an
Oncocin-like expert system for oncology treatment planning-years before AI became mainstream. With
IBM, he played a key role in the
$500 million Manitoba Better Systems Initiative, one of Canada's largest modernization programs. He was also a business technology advisor for the landmark merger of Great-West Life and London Life, shaping a lean and profitable group insurance business.
As an
Information Technology Architecture Planning Advisor with Microsoft, Brice supported the
Government of Manitoba, aligning enterprise architecture practices with modernization strategy. He also served as
Acting Chief Architect at the University of Manitoba, where he advanced
student excellence initiatives, introduced
architectural practices, and led strategies for
high-performance computing (HPC) and
GPU adoption to drive research innovation.
A contributor to the
IASA Global BTABoK, Brice is passionate about mentoring architects and developing the next generation of enterprise leaders. His forthcoming book,
Digital Momentum: Building Real Change-Ready Enterprises, distills these experiences into a practical playbook for creating adaptive, trusted, and continuously evolving enterprises.
