Big Data Fabric Architecture
Big Data Fabric Architecture: How Big Data and Data Management…
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Open Democracy in the Age of AI
An interesting talk by Professor Hélène @Landemore at @TORCHOxford yesterday, exploring the possibility that some forms of artificial intelligence might assist democracy. I haven’t yet read her latest book, which is on Open Democracy.There are various …
Improving the Use of Capabilities in Business Architecture
As I discussed in my previous blog and earlier, the capability concept is a great help in defining a good business architecture. It is used ever more widely and rightly so. As I mentioned in that blog, the concept itself is rooted in the defense domain…
Moral and Mental Dimensions are Just as Important as the Physical
#acd #transfromation #designthinking #entarch #entawk #simplifiedtransformation #agile #productmanagement #projectmanagement #
Relying on backups to protect you against ransomware? Think again
I’ve heard a few people in different organisations mention that they weren’t worried about ransomware because they could just restore from backup. If only it were that easy! CERT NZ and the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency have recently warned about increases in cases of the RYUK ransomware (specifically affecting the healthcare industry). This […]
Business Science and its Enemies
#FollowingTheScience As politicians around the world struggle to contain and master the Covid-19 pandemic, the complex role of science in guiding decision and policy has been brought into view. Not only the potential tension between science and policy,…
I’m speaking at the free online BILT conference on Nov 19
I’m speaking at the free online BILT conference on Nov 19 21:00 CET. Title: Master or Servant? Are We Humans Still ‘Top Dog’ in This Brave New World of Massive IT?
Residual Analysis Project Kickoff
This eight-hour virtual course will help your organization increase the likelihood of success in an early-stage project by applying residual analysis to manage complexity and improve system behavior early in the software systems design phase and build …
Service, product, service – responsibilities
What’s the difference between products and services? One of the key differences, perhaps, is in how we view the respective responsibilities… The core theme in this series of posts on the relationships between product and service, and the follow-on implications …
Capabilities vs. Business Functions: Same Difference?
In this recent video, I outlined why enterprise architecture is an essential instrument in improving the capabilities of your organization. The notions of capability and capability-based planning have become quite popular and important in enterprise an…
The Open Group ‘Digital-First’ Virtual Event October 26 – 29, 2020 – Highlights Blog
In the ongoing transition to Digital-First, an increasing number of technology executives, managers, and practitioners are looking for new approaches that will help them to make sense of the evolving business landscape and deliver digital products and services.
As an organization that is known for solving business issues through global industry collaboration, The Open Group hosted its third virtual event October 26-29, 2020, which provided over 3,300 registrants with the opportunity to discover the critical digital standards that enable a smooth transition to a Digital-First enterprise.
Looking to the Future – Lessons Learned from 2020
I am participating on an Evanta panel on November 2nd titled “Looking to the Future – Lessons Learned from 2020“. In May, I did a talk on the early days of our pandemic response which you can see here: Pandemic Response Keynote – Smart Com…