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In his book “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built,” Stewart Brand notes that building architectures are mainly designed from the spatial perspective, whereas the temporal dimension receives less attention. Building on the notion of She…
This book consists of a little theory which is a touch on the light weight side and a good 300 pages (out of about 420) on ten cases studies. The theory is concise and pithy asking the right sorts of questions to set the context for a transformation project. Given the nature of such projects […]
Mount Sinai Health System has appointed Lisa S. Stump, MS, FASHP, as Chief Digital Information Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System and Dean for Information Technology (IT) of the Icahn School of Medicine at […]
I wanted to share a simple way I learned of practically applying information classification to IT systems. I’ve spoken already about Information Security Thinking – this blog is more about ways to practically apply information security to n…
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves … There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
We who labor at the crossroads of structure and behavior have learned the hard way that content management is far messier than garbage collection and “the system always kicks back.”
Churchman’s interest in computing reaches extensively beyond the metaphor of inquiring systems. He addresses many issues with the state of MIS research of his time, including the tendency of IS researchers to focus on “safe” issues such as “structure of files, retrieval techniques, automatic abstracting, and the like” (Churchman 1968, p.111). He indicates that the majority of such research is not consistent with the systems approach as it focuses on transactions rather than the true goals or benefit of the system. Churchman is also quite visionary as he predicts the ubiquitous role of computers in everyday life. With the ability to “find facts” readily, Churchman predicted that information systems will actually work to reinforce a user’s Weltanschauung (world-view), as the user would screen information based on his Weltanschauung. In order to expand use MIS to expand the user’s view to one that is more holistic, Churchman envisioned a “deadly enemy” proposal for the design of an information system. The main role of this deadly enemy is for the system to propose information results based on assumptions that are opposite of the user’s information request, thereby revealing to the user his fundamental assumptions and at the same time questioning them (Churchman 1968, p. 122-123).
See also Kristo Ivanov, The systems approach to design, and inquiring information systems (2001)
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves … There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
We who labor at the crossroads of structure and behavior have learned the hard way that content management is far messier than garbage collection and “the system always kicks back.”
Churchman’s interest in computing reaches extensively beyond the metaphor of inquiring systems. He addresses many issues with the state of MIS research of his time, including the tendency of IS researchers to focus on “safe” issues such as “structure of files, retrieval techniques, automatic abstracting, and the like” (Churchman 1968, p.111). He indicates that the majority of such research is not consistent with the systems approach as it focuses on transactions rather than the true goals or benefit of the system. Churchman is also quite visionary as he predicts the ubiquitous role of computers in everyday life. With the ability to “find facts” readily, Churchman predicted that information systems will actually work to reinforce a user’s Weltanschauung (world-view), as the user would screen information based on his Weltanschauung. In order to expand use MIS to expand the user’s view to one that is more holistic, Churchman envisioned a “deadly enemy” proposal for the design of an information system. The main role of this deadly enemy is for the system to propose information results based on assumptions that are opposite of the user’s information request, thereby revealing to the user his fundamental assumptions and at the same time questioning them (Churchman 1968, p. 122-123).
See also Kristo Ivanov, The systems approach to design, and inquiring information systems (2001)
How enterprise architecture helps manage shadow IT and low-code solutions as local tools evolve into shared systems with structural impact.
How to improve the security and privacy of users in Cloud-based smart home systems?
By Zhangyi Wu, Zitian Li, Xiaojian Liu, Jingman Zhuang, Junnan Ma and Rod Dilnutt
Introduction
As cloud-based smart home systems b…
Olga Lucia Salgado, a senior enterprise architect at a privately held manufacturing company, used to rely too much on Excel and SharePoint for enterprise architecture (EA) information. She and her team came to the conclusion that an EA tool was needed to help them mature and organize their information and analysis. After evaluating a number…
Last week I was asked for a standard definition of what administrative users are in our company. I wanted to talk a bit about user rights because admin or not admin as a way of thinking is dangerous. I wanted to share my thoughts on it, and an approach for defining user rights in architecture. […]
Some good down-to-earth points from #ASPC20 @airpowerassn ‘s Air and Space Power Conference earlier this month. Although the material was aimed at a defence audience, much of the discussion is equally relevant to civilian and commercial organizations i…