Cay Hasselmann

So why could governance be stupid? Governance is always good and the only problems arise if it is done in the wrong way.  This is usually what you get once you start challenging governance. However we often forget that governance is only in place because of missing trust. If you argue for building more trust, … Continue reading On Stupidity – Governance →

While I consider it vital for all infrastructure and software architects to know the 15 basic business processes, that I will cover in this blog in the coming month, there is one business process more important than the rest. This process is the Hire 2 Retirement or HR process. It is important for two reasons. … Continue reading The one business process that all architects need to know →

Many companies want to make us think that the IoE is the only way forward and that this create the boost of economy that we require. The main problem I can see is that most people dreaming of the IoE have not done their home work and are into solution country long time before implementing … Continue reading You choose: Internet of Everything or isolated intranets of things? →

The economy of the last hundred years was driven by growth and a young generation with lots of needs helped to fuel that growth. Unless you life in Africa this is going to change as the demographics are changing. This means that latest in eight years (usually earlier) the economics will change and as such … Continue reading Too old →

Do you remember Inquire? Properly not and I definitely not. It was the Database System in the early 70s and Infonaut who produced it had nearly a monopoly on the database market, 10 years before Oracle and Sybase entered. And it was a non SQL big table implementation. So funny enough non SQL systems are … Continue reading The company that nearly destroyed non-SQL DBMS →

Customer Relationship Management systems have been a hot item ever since Peter Siebel started his company in the mid 90s. With the mobile internet they got an additional boost as they enabled the data gathering of orders and relationships on the go. Or at least that was the idea. The reality did show that a … Continue reading On stupidity – CRM →

Human Capital Management was coined after the word of Human Resources got a bad name and is a classical example that just changing the name will not create any real change. During my work I have too often seen many self styled HCM expert architects who did not even understand the high level business process … Continue reading On Stupidity – HCM →

Often when talking with fellow data architects I experience that many data architects have lost the basic modelling skills and are usually just deploying the same pattern over and over. That may be excusable for a developer, but not for an architect. So usually the first thing I see is that most data architects will … Continue reading On stupidity – Common Data Architecture →

Lately I was invited to a conference of executive business leaders where the conference was about Information as a weapon and that you should not deliver it in same way as you will not deliver a loaded guns that will be used to kill you. There are funny enough even several books on this that … Continue reading On Stupidity – Transparency →

For me it is always astonishing to see the tendency of passing the buck, as well as to switch off any thinking. I often see many architects arguing with an Analyst report instead of using their own reasoning, usually this happens most with enterprise, business and solution architects or all those architects that help in … Continue reading On stupidity – Follow analysts and take things for granted →