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Digitization of the Public Sector in Asia Pacific
With the onset and outcome of COVID-19, governments have propelled digitization projects and in doing so, faced multiple challenges. In this article, we will take a look at why despite such challenges it was necessary, how governments funded the proje…
Enterprise Architecture vs. Solution Architecture: A Comparison | Ardoq
Just as physical buildings follow carefully designed architectural blueprints, conceiving stable, safe structures and hopefully pleasing to the eye, every business needs to map out their unseen data into a ‘blueprint’ that encompasses their en…
Pitfalls of Data-Driven
@Jon_Ayre questions whether an organization’s being data-driven drives the right behaviours. He identifies a number of pitfalls.It’s all too easy to interpret data through a biased viewpointData is used to justify a decision that has already been madeD…
Discipline as a Service
In my post on Ghetto Wifi (June 2010), I mentioned a cafe in East London that provided free coffee, free biscuits and free wifi, and charged customers for the length of time they occupied the table.A cafe has just opened in Tokyo for writers, which cha…
From Data to Doing
One of the ideas running through my work on #datastrategy is to see data as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. As someone might once have written, Data scientists have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is …
New Book – How to do things with data
#datastrategy My latest book has been published by @Leanpub This is a beta version, and I intend to add more material as well as responding to feedback from readers and making general improvements. Subscribers will always have access to the …
COVID-19 – Anarchy or Panarchy?
In September 2005, we had reason to worry about the ability of a tightly coupled world to withstand shocks. At that time this included Hurricane Katrina and SARS. More recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have arguably …
Testing Multiples
From engineering to medicine, professionals are often forced to rely on tests that are not always completely accurate. In this post, I shall look at the tests that millions of people were obliged to use during the pandemic, to check whether they had CO…
Boundary Objects and Artful Integration
I once did some data architecture and modelling for NHS Blood and Transplant. This is a UK-wide agency responsible for blood, organs and other body parts, managing transfers from donors to recipients.One of the interesting challenges for this kind of o…
Business continuity plans are vital for companies
Financial, health, or geopolitical crises seem to follow one another, often with systemic consequences. Besides a question of survival, companies must now be able to adapt quickly and efficiently to this ever-changing environment. Ensuring operational…
Data Estimation – Stockpile Reports
My attention has been drawn to a company called Stockpile Reports, which provides a data estimation service for piles of material. As I understand it, the calculations are based on visual images of a pile of material, possibly obtained using either a d…