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Participate: Tweeting in the format URL relationship URL
Twitter has emerged as a very powerful medium for propagating ideas and thoughts. Possibly Twitter is the ideal data input tool for harnessing the collective insights of the humans and systems that are...
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Fatal software errors
Many large software-intensive organisations are currently in the process of replacing so-called legacy software systems. These applications and components typically involve several million lines of...
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The impossibility of communicating desired intent
Communication relies on interpretation of the message by the recipient Communication of desired intent can never be fully achieved. It would require a mind-meld between two individuals or between an...
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No one is in control, mistakes happen on this planet
No one is in control, mistakes happen on this planet As humans we heavily rely on intuition and on our personal mental models for making many millions of subsconscious decisions and a much smaller...
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Poll on current priorities of IT organisations in the financial sector
As part of research on the banking sector, I have set up a poll on LinkedIn on the following question: Which of the following objectives is currently the most relevant for IT organisations in the...
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Software evolves like culture, like language, like genes
Software continuously evolves, whether we like it or not. Software shapes us and we attempt to shape software; as part of a dynamic system with increasingly fast feedback loops. Today The Australian...
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Reconnecting software quality expectations and cost expectations
The online straw poll that I recently conducted amongst banking professionals revealed that 29% of the respondents rated Reducing IT costs as the top priority, 32% voted for Improving software and...
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Sharpening your collaborative edge
All animals that have a brain, including humans, rely on mental models (representations) that are useful within the specific context of the individual. As humans we are consciously aware of some of the...
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The story of life is language
This post is a rather long story. It attempts to connect topics from a range of domains, and the insights from experts in these domains. In this story my role is mainly the one of an observer. Over the...
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Death by Standardisation
Standardisation is a double-edged sword. Compliance with standards is best restricted to those standards that really make a difference in a specific context. Even innocent standardisation attempts such...
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Governance of Big Data Cloud Formations – Cyclone Alert
The shift of business applications and business data into the Cloud has led to the following challenges: The physical locations at which data is stored, and the physical locations through which data...
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Let’s talk semantics. Do you know what I mean?
Over the last few years the talk about search engine optimisation has given way to hype about semantic search. context matters The challenge with semantics is always context. Any useful form of...
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Big data blah $ blah $ blah $
Why does LinkedIn feed me with big data hype from 2011? Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity By only talking about dollar metrics, potential big data intelligence...
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Quality of service in the digital age
Oh the irony. Last week I wrote an article on the role of service resilience in shaping a positive user experience, and today I’m trying to use a basic digital service to charge up a mobile with credit...
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The big human battle of this century
The big human battle of this century is going to be the democratisation of data and all forms of knowledge, and the introduction of digital government with the help of free and open source software...
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The antidote to misuse of mathematics and junk data
Depending on who you ask, the perceptions of mathematics range from an esoteric discipline that has little relevance to everyday life to a collection of magical rituals and tools that shape the...
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Beyond busyness as usual
I have always been irritated by people for whom business is first and foremost about “monetisation”. Extrinsically motivated busyness people are incapable of understanding any non-trivial innovation....
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Are you a model builder or a story teller?
Have you ever wondered why “storytelling” is such a trendy topic? If this question bothers you and makes you uncomfortable, your perspective on human affairs and your cognitive lens is rather unusual....
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Experiencing the beauty of collaboration at human scale
Timeless patterns of human limitations The title of this post is the title of a book project I am working on, to provide organisations with a useful sense of direction, giving them the option to snap...
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Evolution of social ecosystems
Organisations are best thought of as cultural organisms. Groups of organisations with compatible operating models can be thought of as a cultural species. The human genus is the genus that includes all...
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