Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Everybody's favourite internet-book-retailer-cum-cloud-computing-giant is planning for a wide range of outcomes after Brexit. "Li...

This week, three American companies announced a joint venture to sort out healthcare for their own employees. Ambitious, huh? This is not ...

Following complaints that Amazon sometimes uses excessively large boxes for packing small items, the following claim appeared on Reddit. ...

According to Wikipedia, the word "showrooming" was coined in the 2010s. The earliest reference I can find is in a Wall Street Jour...

Last week was not a good one for the platform business. Uber continues to receive bad publicity on multiple fronts, as noted in my post on U...

As a retail phenomenon, #showrooming exposes a conflict of interest between online and traditional retailers. Many shoppers will examine a p...

# bizarch Excellent article by @ haydn1701 on Why Amazon Succeeds (Forbes, 29 April 2012) via @ davegray and @ ruthmalan . Haydn Shaun...

Google vs Amazon (again). @ davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge's rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for...

@ bmichelson posts a piece on an HP website called Fast Data: Speed over precision for better decision-making (21 June 2011), summarizing ...

@ Cybersal complains about Amazon. "Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved ...

Ray Ozzie doesn't do many interviews, so lots of people are finding interesting snippets from his interview with Om Malik last week [ Gi...

For many years, people have been talking about "software services". My objection has always been that this misses the point. If so...

A business or value chain is composed in a geometric structure. (In the past we have often called this structure an architecture, but this w...

Amazon, eBay and PayPal are creating platforms for eCommerce. Amazon Web Services eBay Developers Programme PayPal Merchant Tools ...

Lots of commentators and blogs have picked up on a recent Business Week story about Amazon (December 22, 2003). But Amazon has been workin...