This book draws on the same decades of practice as the seven volumes of The Transformed Architecture, Architecture as Code, AI Governance, AI Platform and Security, AI Red Team, AI Threat, The Transformed Security Architect and AI Boss, at the intersection of enterprise architecture, infrastructure engineering, information security and organisational change. It is written from the perspective of a practitioner who has watched architecture move from documents to code and AI move from pilots to agents, and who has spent as much time explaining that landscape to boards, politicians and colleagues outside the profession as building it.
Gunnar's experience spans solution and enterprise architecture, IT infrastructure, and information security engagements for large enterprises and public authorities. His technical background encompasses network solutions, servers, virtualisation, cloud platforms, and IT security, and in recent years the architecture of data platforms and AI-enabled services in regulated settings.
Gunnar Nordqvist works as an independent consultant through Kvadrat, which describes itself as Sweden's largest network of self-employed consultants and has offices across Sweden (54, Kvadrat, n.d.). Kvadrat is the network the author belongs to; it is not the publisher of this book and owns nothing in it.
Primary topics explored
- Gunnar Nordqvist
- About Kvadrat
- Swedish terminology reference
- How this book was made
- The book's technical foundation
About Landscape
Landscape is a companion to The Transformed Architecture. It examines what happens when artificial intelligence takes the manager's chair: algorithmic management of direction, evaluation, consequence, development and care, the effects on people, the management of AI agents, Europe's legal answer, and how to design an accountable AI boss, for European enterprises and public authorities.
It builds on the conclusions of Architecture as Code, AI Governance, AI Platform and Security, AI Red Team, AI Threat and The Transformed Security Architect.
Executives, line managers, HR and people leaders, works councils and trade unions, public employers, architects and AI governance leads, data protection and legal officers, procurement and programme leaders, and risk, compliance and audit.
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About the Author: About the Author in Landscape gives the detailed explanations, practical examples and implementation patterns behind this summary.
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