Day: April 26, 2012

Twin-Track Architecture

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#entarch This post follows discussions with Graham Berrisford of Avancier about the relationship between Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Solution Architecture (SA).

What seems to make sense is to describe EA/SA as a twin-track process (similar to th…

Dear Data entrepreneurs, I’ll choose my own movie. Go study cancer. — Active Information

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This week on active information, I excerpt and comment on a Kauffman Foundation report on healthcare that I found both enlightening and enraging.

My lead-in:

“Why is it we can predict a consumer’s propensity to read Hunger Games, upgrade their iPad or download music featured on the Voice, yet we fail miserably at predicting life-threatening events, such as a women’s propensity to develop breast cancer?”

The post: Data entrepreneurs, Ill choose my own movie. Go s… – Input Output.

Thanks to Joe McKendrick for pointing out the report.
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It’s not a cycle

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If it’s not a cycle, don’t call it a cycle. In the past few days I’ve had a fair bit of struggle to get clients to understand the difference between a linear-sequence with a beginning, a middle and an end, versus a true cycle where the end of one sequence links to or becomes the […]