Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Just an announcement that the video of the ‘fundamentals’ part of my recent talks on essential insights on technology and psychology in relation to the digital revolution is now online on my YouTube channel.
You’re on the Titanic. The engineers are shouting: “The bulkheads are too low! The rudder is too small! There aren’t enough life boats!”. The sailors mumble: “It has been cold, there will be many more icebergs than usual and further south”. The owners …
Fundamental properties of digital IT have set ons on a road not to a Singularity Point, but towards Complexity Crunch. That has consequences for our strategic (IT) choices and landscapes.
A ‘long read’ (sorry) about lessons we can learn by now after h…
The early machines at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution produced ‘cheap’ (in both meanings) products and it was the introduction of that ‘cheap’ category that was actually disruptive. In the same way, where ‘cheap’ is acceptable (and no: that …
The world is waking up to the systemic vulnerabilities of our massive dependence on interdependent large logical (IT) landscapes. These not only lead to inertia — change becomes harder and harder —, but also to a brittleness of our organisations — and …
The third ‘fragmentation wave’ of the IT-revolution is upon us, it seems. Fragmentation is a repeated pattern in the IT-revolution, that has given us object oriented programming and agile/DevOps as solutions to managing complexity. Now, it is the organ…
Thanks to Gary Marcus, I found out about this research paper. And boy, is this is both a clear illustration of a fundamental flaw at the heart of Generative AI, as well as uncovering a doubly problematic and potentially unsolvable problem: fine-tuning …
Should we be hopeful or scared about imminent machines that are as intelligent or more than humans? Surprisingly, this debate is even older than computers, and from the mathematician Ada Lovelace comes an interesting observation that is as valid now as…
Cicero, a model by facebook Meta, was able to win from humans in one of the best board games in the world: Diplomacy, a very impressive feat. More on that below. Let’s move to chatGPT first, the language model that… Read More Cicero and ch…
McKinsey seems to be the first ‘big consultancy’ that really frees itself from outdated, ineffective, orthodox enterprise architecture notions.
What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Strategist’s position becomes more frustrating as a result.