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For more information about the changes at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, read Ben White's article in the New York Times, “Starting a New Era at Goldman and Morgan” (September 22, 2008).

Competitive companies tend not to remain stagnant, especially those that formally declare through a mission or vision statement the desire to improve shareholder value. By restructuring the organization, acquiring another organization, spinning off a line of business, or growing organically, organizations continually change and evolve. Companies that change in ways beyond an existing market niche can certainly reap assistance through the use of AI. Paradoxically, if an overarching strategy is to tightly align information technology with the business, that may be a surefire way to stifle or inhibit business growth and prevent the ability to rapidly change.

An information architecture that is loosely coupled to the business strategy, the underlying data, and the practice of AI can provide the requisite degree of agility to help respond to changing business needs while lessening the burden on an IT department to predict what needs to be changed to address a new business need. Assets built by IT need to be highly adaptive.