Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Richard Veryard @camerontw is critical of a system diagram published (as an illustrative example) by @geoffmulgan in 2013.Is there an epistemology of systems? I zoomed into this map randomly and saw ‘high drug use’ above ‘lack of youth activities’ but not connected. H…
@camerontw is critical of a system diagram published (as an illustrative example) by @geoffmulgan in 2013.Is there an epistemology of systems? I zoomed into this map randomly and saw ‘high drug use’ above ‘lack of youth activities’ but not connected. H…
As I have previously noted, drawing on research by Izabella Kaminski and others, there is something seriously problematic about the current business model of rideshare platforms such as Uber and Lyft. It seems that the only route to profitability is vi…
In some of my posts, I have used the terms vertical and horizontal in relation to Business Architecture. The purpose of this post is to analyse what these terms actually mean.Firstly, the word vertical is often associated with value chain thinking. Typ…
Data sharing and collaboration between different specialist areas requires agreement and transparency about the structure and meaning of the data. This is one of the functions of metadata.I’ve been reading a paper (by Professor Paul Edwards and others)…
The philosopher J.L. Austin observed that sometimes words didn’t merely describe reality, they enacted something. A commonly cited example is that when a suitably authorized person pronounces a couple married, it is the speaking of these words that mak…
Many people believe that data should provide a faithful representation or picture of the real world. While this is often a helpful simplification, it can sometimes mislead.Firstly, the picture theory isn’t very good at handling probability and uncertai…
I have long argued for the benefits of an outside-in view of business architecture. In 2008-9, Tony Bidgood and I developed a worked example based on the fictional delivery company Springfield Parcels, to illustrate a range of different business improv…
I wrote somewhere once that thinking with the majority is an excellent description of Google. Because one of the ways something rises to the top of your search results is that lots of other people have already looked at it, liked or linked to it.The ph…
I wrote somewhere once that thinking with the majority is an excellent description of Google. Because one of the ways something rises to the top of your search results is that lots of other people have already looked at it, liked or linked to it.The ph…
Infrastructure is boring, expensive, and usually someone else’s
responsibility/problem. Which is perhaps how the UK finds itself at what
Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, describes as a moment of reckoning. Simon Wardley analyses this in terms of digital…
Infrastructure is boring, expensive, and usually someone else’s responsibility/problem. Which is perhaps how the UK finds itself at what Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, describes as a moment of reckoning. Simon Wardley analyses this in terms of digital…