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Digitization has placed data at the heart of organizations’ initiatives, both for operational and strategic needs. As companies capture massive amounts of data and deal with big data environments, they must maximize their value, manage risk and reduce…
The goal of the Airbus business transformation has been to use Enterprise Architecture (EA) to understand the bigger picture across its organization as it develops its ‘Digital Aeroplane of the Future’.
During a presentation at the IRM Business Transf…
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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…
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…
@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…
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…
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 …
#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 …
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 …
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…
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…