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We all are told many times that Information is key and often we see that it is our ability as architects to produce the kind of relevant and not widely known information that we paid for. Usually we are also paid to keep information in a small group so that it can be used against … Continue reading Insider information trading →
It’s been almost a year since I’ve written anything about microservices, and while a lot has been said on that subject, it’s one I still monitor to see what new pops up. The opening of a blog post that I read last week caught my attention: Coined by Melvin Conway in 1968, Conway’s Law states: […]
We work in a communications industry. We create and maintain systems to move information around in order to get things done. That information moves between people and systems in combinations and configurations too numerous to count. In spite of that, we don’t do that great a job of communicating what should be, for us, extremely […]
Bouncing among cognitive sessions and weaving though the crowds, it’s not clear what hurts the most, my feet or my brain. How much of this are we to believe? What is actually deployable, affordable, and usable by mere humans, and when? The cognitive …
@mrkwpalmer (TIBCO) invites us to take what he calls a Hyper-Darwinian approach to analytics. He observes that “many algorithms, once discovered, have a remarkably short shelf-life” and argues that one must be as good at “killing off weak or vanquished…
It should be pretty obvious why Microsoft wants 85 million faces. According to its privacy policy
Microsoft uses the data we collect to provide you the products we offer, which includes using data to improve and personalize your experiences. We also may use the data to communicate with you, for example, informing you about your account, security updates and product information. And we use data to help show more relevant ads, whether in our own products like MSN and Bing, or in products offered by third parties. (retrieved 25 October 2016)
Facial recognition software is big business, and high quality image data is clearly a valuable asset.
But why would 85 million people go along with this? I guess they thought they were just playing a game, and didn’t think of it in terms of donating their personal data to Microsoft. The bait was to persuade people to find out how old the software thought they were.
The Daily Mail persuaded a number of female celebrities to test the software, and printed the results in today’s paper.
Computer”tell yr age” programme on my face puts me 69 https://t.co/EhEog5LQcN Haha!But why are those judged younger than they are so pleased— mary beard (@wmarybeard) October 25, 2016
Talking of beards …
. @futureidentity If we ever reach peak data, advertisers will check photos before advertising beard accessories #personalization #TotalData— Richard Veryard (@richardveryard) April 1, 2016
. @futureidentity So, did you ever buy that right-handed beard brush? #PeakHipster #Sinister https://t.co/kESqmUooNk #CISNOLA cc @mfratto— Richard Veryard (@richardveryard) June 8, 2016
Kyle Chayka, Face-recognition software: Is this the end of anonymity for all of us? (Independent, 23 April 2014)
Chris Frey, Revealed: how facial recognition has invaded shops – and your privacy (Guardian, 3 March 2016)
Rebecca Ley, Would YOU dare ask a computer how old you look? Eight brave women try out the terrifyingly simple new internet craze (Daily Mail, 25 October 2016)
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By Sven Vollbehr, SAP Certified LEAD Business & Enterprise Architect, SKF; Speaker at The Open Group Paris 2016 Recently, The Open Group released a new open standard IT operating model and reference architecture called IT4IT™. They billed it as the answer … Continue reading →
According to a recent survey by McKinsey, “the great majority of our respondents expect corporate learning to change significantly within the next three years”.
It seems that whatever the topic of the survey, middle managers and management consultants always expect significant change within the next three years, because this is what justifies their existence.
In this case, the topic is corporate learning, which McKinsey recommends should be done “at the speed of business”, whatever that means. (I am not a fan of the “at the speed of” cliche.)
But what kind of change is McKinsey talking about here? The article concentrates on digital delivery of learning material – disseminating existing “best practice” knowledge to a broader base. It doesn’t really say anything about organizational learning, let alone a more radical transformation of the nature of learning in organizations. I have long argued that the real disruption is not in replacing classrooms with cheaper and faster equivalents, useful though that might be, but in digital organizational intelligence — using increasing quantities of data to develop and test new hypotheses about customer behaviour, market opportunities, environmental constraints, and so on — developing not “best practice” but “next practice”.
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön, Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1978.
According to a recent survey by McKinsey, “the great majority of our respondents expect corporate learning to change significantly within the next three years”.It seems that whatever the topic of the survey, middle managers and management consult…
EA Learning is delighted to announce the launch of two new certification courses from the Arcitura™ Education curriculum. The Arcitura Education business has a proven track record in delivering high-quality and respected certification programs. They […]
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What is Enterprise Architecture? Enterprise architecture (EA) is a discipline for proactively defining a conceptual blueprint to enable businesses to respond to disruptive forces. The objective of EA is to ascertain, analyse and categorise, the […]
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The pillar are nothing special, they are just the laws or pillars of thought going back to Plato and Aristoteles. The pillars are the law of identity, the law of contradiction and the law of excluding the middle. All constructs and projects that have been successful in test of time have followed these laws. Additionally … Continue reading Three pillars of Architecture →