Emergent Intelligence
The general theory he named and unified — and whose mechanism he built: Artificial Intelligence (AI) understood as a complex adaptive system. The unified framework his entire research arc builds toward.
About the Author
The mind behind Emergent Intelligence.
Emergent Intelligence is the work of Drew Guitarte — an enterprise architect who spent twenty-five years building bridges between business and technology, and who named and unified the theory this site exists to advance — and built its mechanism.
The Practitioner
Twenty-five years on the bridge between business and technology.
Andrew “Drew” Guitarte is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) executive and a SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) Subject Matter Expert (SME). He founded Enduraman Corporation, an independent management-consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and led it as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from 2006 to 2026. He is adjunct faculty at Golden Gate University, where he taught for more than a decade, with no course this term.
Across that career he led complex, cross-functional programs and enterprise-wide transformation — as enterprise architect, business architect, senior project manager, and business analyst — in financial services, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, airlines, and government. The work always returned to a single conviction: for technology to be relevant, it must be inseparable from the goals of the business.
For technology to be relevant, it must be inseparably coordinated with business goals. Enterprise architecture is not an information-technology function — it is a business function.
The Originator
Frameworks, named and built.
Drew does not only practice architecture; he originates it. Two frameworks and a professional community trace directly to him.
The Pluggable Economy
His 2022 economic framework: every person, product, and business connecting as frictionlessly as a power outlet, governed by one principle — delight for all.
Business Architecture Society
The chapter-based, nonprofit professional organization he founded and chairs — built practitioner-to-practitioner, on the belief that peers learn best from peers.
Credentials
The record behind the work.
- Background
- Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) candidate, Golden Gate University; Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science (major: Artificial Intelligence), Ateneo de Manila University; Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics and Computer Science; further study at Harvard Extension School (Information Management and Cybersecurity). Certifications including Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), and Certified SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) Practitioner. Published and conference author — Cutter Consortium (2015 and 2017) and the Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Congress (2015). Named inventor on United States Patent No. 10,896,396 (“Cognitive and Heuristics-Based Emergent Financial Management”; assignee Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.). Doctoral dissertation: “Emergent E-Government Stakeholder Self-Organizing Behavior Effects on Corruption” (Golden Gate University, 2015).
The Throughline
A bridge-builder who runs long.
The instinct that runs through every framework is the same one: connect what others keep apart — information technology to business, theory to practice, current state to target state. The work is deliberate and patient, built for durable outcomes rather than fast ones.
That patience carries a name. Enduraman — the firm and the philosophy — holds that sustained, deliberate effort over time beats intensity and flash. It is the same ethic, whether the distance is a marathon or a multi-year transformation.
Build the bridge. Run the distance.