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Richard Veryard Clinical trials are supposed to generate reliable data to support healthcare decisions and policies at several levels. Regulators use the data to control the marketing and use of medicines and healthcare products. Clinical practice guidelines are produ…
The concepts of net-centricity, information superiority and power to the edge emerged out of the US defence community about twenty years ago, thanks to some thought leadership from the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP). One of the routes of t…
This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of data and information that must be addressed in a data strategy – reach, richness, agility and assurance.In previous posts, I looked at Reach (the range of data sources and destina…
This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of data and information that must be addressed in a data strategy – reach, richness, agility and assurance.In previous posts, I looked at Reach, which is about the range of data sour…
This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of data and information that must be addressed in a data strategy – reach, richness, agility and assurance.In my previous post, I looked at Reach, which is about the range of data sou…
This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of Data and Information that must be addressed in a data strategy – reach, richness, agility and assurance.Data strategy nowadays is dominated by the concept of big data, whatever that…
I’ve been hearing a lot about citizens recently. The iPaaS vendors are all talking about citizen integration, and at the Big Data London event this week I heard several people talking about citizen data science.Gartner’s view is that development can be…
Until the arrival of the motor car, the street belonged to humans and horses. The motor car was regarded as an interloper, and was generally blamed for collisions with pedestrians. Cities introduced speed limits and other safety measures to protect ped…
People and organizations often adopt a metrical approach to sensemaking, decision and policy. They attach numbers to things, perhaps using a weighted scorecard or other calculation method, and then make judgements about status or priority or action bas…
In his book on policy-making, Geoffrey Vickers talks about three related types of judgment – reality judgment (what is going on, also called appreciation or sense-making), value judgment and action judgment.In his book on technology ethics, Hans Jona…
Is there a framework or methodology for establishing the business / ecosystem requirements to drive API strategy and development?At an industry event I attended recently, hosted by a company that sells tools and technologies for the API eco…
I was involved in a debate this week, concerning whether ethical principles and standards should include weapons systems, or whether military purposes should be explicitly excluded.On both sides of the debate, there were people who strongly disapproved…