To be and not to be — is that the answer?
In a previous article that was about useful-to-know Achilles’ heels…
#eavoices
Productive Organisational Paradoxes
Here are the slides from my talk at the SCiO open day in London earlier this year. You can watch them static and download the slide-deck from here, or play it with animations below. Related posts: SASSY Architecture From Distinction to Value and Back What can Social Systems Theory bring to the VSM? QUTE: Enterprise […]
Hybrid Identity Options
Today, many corporations are using SaaS applications. Leveraging the cloud can be a better option from both a cost and maintenance standpoint. This post is not about the pros and cons of SaaS, but rather about hybrid identity. Maintaining a common user…
Smart Communities Roadshow 2019 Presentation
I had the honour of delivering the Keynote presentation at the Public Sector Network Smart Communities Roadshow 2019 in Vancouver on Wednesday March 6, 2019. I posted my presentation slides here. Looking forward to your comments and feedback.
Upstream Ethics
We can roughly characterize two places where ethical judgements are called for, which I shall call upstream and downstream. There is some inconsistency about how these terms are used in the literature; here are my definitions.I use the term upstream et…
Catching Up on The Open Group Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF): A Conversation with Ed Harrington
Two years ago, a group of companies from seemingly disparate industries met in San Francisco to discuss the possibility of creating an open standard for process automation. With 30 different companies in attendance at that first meeting, the group quickly recognized the commonalities among them and the need for more flexible manufacturing solutions. Soon after, they launched the Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF) under the auspices of The Open Group® to begin work toward developing a standard that would address the common pain points manufacturers in process automation face today.
Virtual Machines vs Containers
Virtual machines (VM) and containers are similar in concept, but very different in their implementation and use. Conceptually, both allow the running of multiple services on a single platform. Both are quicker and less expensive to deploy than physical…
EA Metamodel – 5 minute video introduction
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Ethics and Uncertainty
How much knowledge is required, in order to make a proper ethical judgement?Assuming that consequences matter, it would obviously be useful to be able to reason about the consequences. This is typically a combination of inductive reasoning (what has ha…
Connecting The Dots Podcast
Last month, I was fortunate enough to be asked to…
Enterprise Architecture in Engineering Services
Using EA in an Engineering Services Company to Improve…
Ethics – Soft and Hard
Professor Luciano @Floridi has recently introduced the concept of Soft Ethics. He wants to make a distinction between ethical judgements that go into laws, regulations and other norms, which he calls Hard Ethics, and ethical judgements that apply and e…