Cay Hasselmann

Most people and architects will argue that serendipity is no capability as it cannot be forced and as such it is draped from most capability maps. However serendipity can be grown and managed, just not by classical business processes. The same is true for top results or creativity. Take coaching a top sport team as … Continue reading Serendipity as a capability →

Some years ago all architects thought it to be a really good idea to establish the architecture maturity matrix, me included. The main point that we forgot until it was too late or nearly too late is that architecture is only a third about engineering. The other element are consisting of psychology, creativity and other … Continue reading Commodity and the maturity matrix →

Obfuscation in architecture is usually called different. the meaning of obfuscation is to darken something and as such architects call it black box design. The benefit of obfuscation is therefore that it solves hiding complexities or in other areas hide information. An example was to hide the pay record of a spy in large departments … Continue reading Avoid obfuscation →

While I really like some recruitment agencies some of them are best to avoid. They usually fall in 6 categories: Harvesting and marketing CV’s . Here a job agency is creating some fiction job offer to get CVs and then is using the CVs for marketing. For me as an candidate this can be very … Continue reading Stay away from some recruitment agencies →

Algorithmic business is an area on the up and coming. However when you look at algorithms that are of any use you will see that most vendors always concentrate at a handful plus some algorithms from game theory. So if you want to explore the area of business algorithm architecture I recommend that you read … Continue reading Algorithmic business →

When you lock around on trade shows and web page you will quickly see headlines that tell us that the newest sales analytic tool will get you XX % more sales. The problem is that sales analytics nowadays just do not keep their promise. They are great when you want new ways to visualise sales … Continue reading Analytics = Sales Growth →

Most people are aware that in our body we have a constant neural noise level. The noise is actually produced by different mechanism such as by the friction of membrane potential of every single cell, the quantal release and by every chemical reaction in our body (usually called chemical sensing. Actually to stay alive we … Continue reading Enterprise synaptic noise →

TCO as total cost of ownership was created to compare different cars in terms their costs as fleet cars in the mid 80s. Later Gartner thought it a good idea to move the concept into information technology. The problem with TCO on cars was that you need a very precise number of variables and that … Continue reading TCO bias →

With TOGAF a lot of architects always restate KISS, however being simple is actually not simple as there are aspects of being simple that are plainly awful. Example for being simple are using flags instead of value pairs, create a new structured customer table on a micro service instead of reusing the existing enterprise wide … Continue reading Keep it simple, not propose simplicity →

Since the matched filter is close to its 50 birthday I wanted to post about this method that far to few are aware of. The matched filter is a method in signal processing to detect the presence of a given template. You may have actually encountered it in the detection of malware where it is … Continue reading Matched filters in architecture →

Some days ago I saw a shirt with 01123581321 and I was instantly recognising the Fibonacci’s Numbers learned so long ago, especially the fractals and the many times the system occurs in nature. I actually even used them in different settings instead of the sequential arabic numbering for customer service surveys, KPI formulation  and for … Continue reading Our refusal to use Fibonacci’s Numbers →

In the Summer of 2016 the British trade minister stated that the UK business men are too fat and too lazy. Funny enough no business group really got upset. You can always explain that with the notion that no one really takes politicians serious. However The whole made me think of laziness in business and … Continue reading Business is too fat and lazy →