Uncertainty – Page 2

Capitalizing on Complexity and Uncertainty

May 22, 2015 by Roger Evernden

Darren Dalcher, one of my colleagues at Cutter Consortium, has written an Advisor about “The Third Knowledge Revolution: Learning to Live with Uncertainty” (Cutter login required) that has a lot of relevance to enterprise architects. My experience, research and client work shows that knowledge is one of eight fundamental factors that we need to include in EA…

Crystal Ball Time Each year, Anne Mullaney, sets a challenge to the Cutter consultants:…
Managing Complexity with Enterprise Architecture Mike Rosen has written an interesting article about complexity and…
EA Myths Four myths that hide the true value from Enterprise Architecture!I…

Bending reality (short version)

May 11, 2014 by Tom Graves

Do you believe in magic? Most people don’t. But this isn’t about magic as such – it’s about belief: in particular, Gooch’s Paradox, that “things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to…

Bending reality

May 11, 2014 by Tom Graves

Do you believe in magic? [Yep, this one is long – more than 7000 words, or long even by my somewhat-extreme standards for blogging. But there are good reasons why it needs to be this long, as you’ll discover later – and…

Big Data still in naivety proves Elusive to Big Picture and Randomness

June 24, 2013 by Srinidhi Boray

Big Data as it exists today is not necessarily a tool that creates the Big Picture. Most systems that exists today are designed based on predicated methods. These rely on known variables, the only constraint unknown are the values of the variables. Predicated system are constrained to create newer insight as they are bounded by […]

More on backbone and edge

May 4, 2013 by Tom Graves

How do we build the right support in our architectures for the balance between certainty and uncertainty? How do we decide what needs to go into backbone, edge, or somewhere in between? This is a follow-on to the themes in…

“Who will lead us out of our uncertainty?”

April 16, 2013 by Tom Graves

“The world still reels from the fallout from the crisis of 2008 :: Who will lead us out of our uncertainty?” Those are the frame-captions for a cartoon-style advert that’s currently running on the Forbes website, for an upcoming conference…

Working with ‘I don’t know’

January 27, 2013 by Tom Graves

How do we work on something when we don’t know what to do? Where do we start? How do we start? How do we keep going? I had some useful first-hand experience with this earlier this week. Some while back, I’d…

On working with uncertainty

September 10, 2012 by Tom Graves

Yes, I know I tend to write long; some others, though, tend to write such short Twitter-length phrases that there’s a real risk that what they say may be lost in the noise. Here’s a real example of something that…

CAP Theorem, partitions, ambiguity, data trust

June 7, 2012 by Christopher Bird

This posting was written in response to Eric Brewer’s excellent piece entitled CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have ChangedI have copied the statement of the theorem here to provide some context:The CAP theorem states that any networked shared-…

CAP Theorem, partitions, ambiguity, data trust

June 7, 2012 by Christopher Bird

CAP Theorem, partitions, ambiguity, data trust

June 7, 2012 by Christopher Bird

Luck, Serendipity, and the Contextual Strategist

December 27, 2011 by Mike Rollings

Recently, @davegray @tetradian @nickmalik and I (@mikerollings) had a brief twitter exchange about the role of luck in strategy. What is luck anyway? Isn’t it just a happy accident, an unexpected happening, a simple explanation for the unexpected, a serendipitous association that leaves us in awe of the randomness of life? In that context, strategy […]

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