Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
When businesses discuss how to minimize or mitigate risk with IT folks, the topic can be a challenging one – but these conversations are even more critical in today’s climate. One area of confusion that sometimes comes up is the difference …
@BCSDMSG and @DAMAUK ran an online conference last month, entitled Delivering Value Through Data. Videos are now available on YouTube.The conference opened with a very interesting presentation by Peter Thomas (Prudential Regulation Authority, part of t…
Situational Awareness – A Business Objective.
The last quiz was quite a while ago I am sorry to say. But today I am offering a new one. My quizzes in the past often where there to illustrate some weirdness in ArchiMate or something that could trip… Read More The July 2020 ArchiMate Quiz
I was recently invited onto the BiZZdesign Enterprise Architecture Podcast to discuss the journey of organizational change at the Royal Bank of Scotland, an initiative in which I’ve played an active role – and still do, in fact. I think it was a good t…
It is with great excitement that I announce the introduction…
I am always curious to understand why people don’t want…
In previous blog posts, we talked about the use of architecture models in the context of agile development, and the ‘right’ level of detail for such models. But how do you go about creating models in an agile context? Agile models from an agile modelin…
Linked Data is still largely unknown, or misunderstood and undervalued. Often, people find it simply too difficult. So I keep looking for new ways to make Linked Data more accessible. And with some success. In my training courses so far over 60% of the participants had no IT background. I hope even to increase this […]
In a May 2020 essay, @NaomiAKlein explains how Silicon Valley is exploiting the COVID19 crisis as an opportunity to reframe a long-standing vison of an app-driven, gig-fueled future. Until recently, Klein notes, this vision was being sold to us in the …
What is knowledge? And what is its relation with data and information – or wisdom, for that matter? The starting-point for this was a question on LinkedIn from Josef Miklos, over in the Czech Republic: I am struggling with the…
ImageNet is a large crowd-sourced database of coded images, widely used for machine learning. This database can be traced to an idea articulated by Fei-Fei Li in 2006: We’re going to map out the entire world of objects. In a blogpost on the Limitations…