[Call for Papers] Automation: The Next Frontier

An upcoming issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal will explore automation in terms of new technologies, opportunities, applications, and associated challenges. Share your insight! A new wave of smart automation and autonomous systems has emerged with the ability to make and execute decisions with little human intervention. The movement is primarily driven by advances in Read more

An Idea for Creating a Change-Welcoming Culture: Intrapreneurship

By taking a human-centric approach — involving people and winning their loyalty — it becomes easier for organizations to identify and drive tough changes within a company. In their article Transforming Change into Trust in the Digital Era, Jagdish Bhandarkar and Namratha Rao offer an example of how one Fortune 100 company was quite successful in Read more

The Digital Twin Organization: Can Enterprise Architecture Help?

One of the more interesting developments in the tech space taking place right now is the emergence of digital twin technology. For those of you asking What is a digital twin? right now, allow us to elaborate.  What is a Digital Twin?  A digital twin, a…

A digital dinosaur, and enterprise architecture

The Council of Australasian University Directors of Information Technology1, “CAUDIT”, provides valuable support and governance to several communities of practice operating across more than sixty member organisations.  The CAUDIT Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice is the longest-running of those communities, and is holding is thirteenth annual in-person symposium meeting in November 2018 at Curtin University […]

Combining Structure and Data: Business Intelligence 2.0

In previous blog posts, we have written about various analysis techniques that help you get more value from your models, as well as dashboarding techniques to visualize data in all kinds of ways. These two topics point to a more general theme: the new …

What can Social Systems Theory bring to the VSM?

In 2015, when the Metaphorum was in Hull, I tried to kick off a discussion about potential contributions from cognitive science, and particularly from the Enactive school. I shared some insights and hinted at other possibilities. This year the Metaphorum conference was in Germany for the first time. It was organised by Mark Lambertz and hosted by […]

YouTube Growth Hacking

Fascinating talk by @sophiehbishop at @DigiCultureKCL about YouTube growth hacks, and the “algorithm bros” that promote them (and themselves). Sophie Bishop talking about ‘algorithm bros’ 😍🤜🤛 @sophiehbishop @DigiCultureKCL pic.twitter.com/bKFOEOk2W1— Z…