I am a ChickenBrain

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After trying out blogging for a bit more than a month I decided to invest a little time into using my own domain now for the blog. It is still hosted with Google Blogger, but now to be found under http://socialea.chickenbrain.de.
 
“We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
 
 
The interesting (for me at least) thing about that domain is, that I found the name ChickenBrain at the age of 17 as a Character name for a Roleplay game (quite some years ago), before I explored the Internet. I quit roleplaying some years ago, but that nick kind of sticked to me. At that age I had a very good teacher for philosophy (looking back my school was really cool to offer that course, at that age I did not recognize the school to be cool). That (wise) man teached us in a good way that we do not know anything, so ChickenBrain became my pattern (and still is my main pattern).
 
I know that I know nothing and therefore I seek for answers (and will hopefully continue seeking for answers). Funny enough in one job interview (with a headhunting consultancy) I was told to not use my primary email adress kai@chickenbrain.de for sending the resume, but shall use something more professional. I was listening to the headhunting clerk and told him that I will not (and hopefully never) will be working for a company who does not value people who openly confess that they know nothing.
 
So, if there is one thing I know, than this is the message:
I am a ChickenBrain
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Forthcoming Events

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The next public dates for my workshops with Unicom are as follows.

Business Architecture Bootcamp (November 20th-21st)
Organizational Intelligence Workshop (November 22nd)
Architecture-Led Procurement (November 28th)

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Delusion and Diversity

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@VenessaMiemis asks “If most people are self delusional, what’s the point of qualitative research?” @CoCreatr retorts “What if we are all self-delusional and need proof by qualitative research to become more accepting of it?”Of course organizations are…

Whose target is it anyway?

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“The IMF downgrades its growth forecasts and casts further doubt on Osborne meeting his debt target” reports @JJ_159 via @Spectator_CH. @EmmaLangman suggests (sadly) that that it is ‘our’ debt target by association. “What Chancellor chooses, the countr…

I Thought I had Said it All – and Then Comes Service Technology

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I saw the post by Forbes blogger Joe McKendrick in which McKendrick introduces a new term – Service Technology – which cements the concept of a service-oriented thinking that technically enables the realization of SOA within the enterprise followed by its sustained evolution to cloud computing. Continue reading →

Social Enterprise Platforms – Meet Dynamic Case Management

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Social platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, and others are gaining traction within enterprises, but are they really useful and do they increase employee productivity? Well, according to Forrester’s Craig LeClair, the answer is no, until they are integrated with core business processes. OpenText’s Steve Russell recently joined Craig to discuss how dynamic case management (DCM) solutions, […]

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Complexity SCANs in GLUE

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In my lasts posts I was exploring complexity and how I tackle the problem of complexity by applying my GLUE thinking to it. Therefore here a short summary so that my thinking about complexity up to now is collected in one place. I am using the SCAN fra…

Link Collection — October 7, 2012

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  • The Architect Says: A Compendium of Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom from Iconic Architects | Brain Pickings

    Those “other” architects…

    “There’s something inescapably alluring about pocket-sized compendiums of quotes by great architects and designers — take, for instance, those of Charles Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright. Fittingly, The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom (public library) gathers timeless wisdom on design and architecture from more than 100 of history’s most vocal — and often dissenting — minds. What emerges, besides the fascinating tapas bar of ideas about the art and science of building, is the subtle but essential reminder that what lies at the heart of creative legacy aren’t universal formulas and unrelenting tents but perspective, conviction, and personality.”

    tags: architects

  • Three Ways The President Can Create Digital Jobs Now – Forbes

    Data as raw material for growth, I like that.

    “In this new technological world, data is the raw material for growth. We are likely to see economic and societal changes that will dwarf what we have seen so far from the Internet, driven by gathering, analyzing, and acting upon data. The new data-driven industries and their jobs will run on the infrastructure of the Internet just as the growth industries of the industrial revolution used railroads, highways and the telephone.

    Those with access to data will get the rewards. Most of that data is held by companies and quite a lot by the government. While companies need to benefit from their creations, we need to find ways to put more data directly into the hands of ordinary Americans so they can gain economically from big data too…”

    tags: data economy forbes

  • Making the case for STEM skills – for everyone | SmartPlanet

    “A person has STEM literacy if she can understand the world around her in a logical way guided by the principals of scientific thought. A STEM-literate person can think for herself. She asks critical questions.  She can form hypotheses and seek data to confirm or deny them. She sees the beauty and complexity in nature and seeks to understand. She sees the modern world that mankind has created and hopes to use her STEM-related skills and knowledge to improve it.”

    tags: stem

  • Howard Rubin Says Traditional IT Budgets Falling While As Corporate Tech Spending Rises – The CIO Report – WSJ

    IT versus Digitization: “The study determined that major companies, across all sectors, now spend about $8.60 on “non-IT” technology for every dollar that they spend on traditional forms of IT infrastructure, such as servers, storage, networking, mainframe MIPS, application development and maintenance. That’s up from $5.10 in 2006 and $3.20 in 2000.  All told, about 79% of technology spending at those same companies is “non IT,” up from 69% in 2006 and 34% in 2000, Rubin said. Rubin defines non-IT expense as any technology related expense other than processing platforms and applications. It includes robotics, process automation, embedded chips/processors, and data analytics typically done outside the company, such as text analytic and sentiment analysis or automated sampling.”

    tags: it budget digitization

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PACE SCAN

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In my last posts I explored the world of complexity and started with Don’t Panic. An advice which does not only work for GLUE and Enterprise Architecture but is generally a fairly good advice. The some ideas collided in my head (which reminds me of the…