Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Cybernetics helps us understand dynamic systems that are driven by a particular type of data. Here are some examples:Many economists see markets as essentially driven by price data. On the Internet (especially social media) we can see systems that are …
The lie detector (aka #polygraph) is back in the news. The name polygraph is based on the fact that the device can record and display several things at once. Like a dashboard.In the 1920s, a young American physiologist named John Larson devised a vers…
If we want to build a data-driven business, we need to appreciate the various roles that data and intelligence can play in the business – whether improving a single business service, capability or process, or improving the business as a whole. The exam…
Ten years ago, the editor of Wired Magazine published an article claiming the end of theory. “With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.”The idea that data (or facts) speak for themselves, with no need for interpretation or analysis, is a comm…