Architecture, Data and Intelligence

One of the things I've been pushing for years is the idea that data strategy should itself be data driven. In other words, if we are cla...

@ Jon_Ayre questions whether an organization's being data-driven drives the right behaviours. He identifies a number of pitfalls. It...

One thing that contributes to the success of Netflix is its recommendation engine, originally based on an algorithm called CineMatch. I disc...

#FollowingTheScience As politicians around the world struggle to contain and master the Covid-19 pandemic, the complex role of science in g...

Cybernetics helps us understand dynamic systems that are driven by a particular type of data. Here are some examples: Many economists see ma...

The concepts of net-centricity , information superiority and power to the edge emerged out of the US defence community about twenty years ...

This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of Data and Information that must be addressed in a data strategy - reac...

Last week, someone asked me how I go about producing a data model. I found out afterwards that my answer was considered too brief. So here...

In an earlier post Towards the Data-Driven Business , I talked about the various roles that data and intelligence can play in the business. ...

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 - wh...

@GuyLongworth, who teaches philosophy at Warwick, is puzzled by the Netflix recommendation algorithm, linking Annie Hall with Son of Saul. ...

In my post From Convenience to Consilience - “Technology Alone Is Not Enough"   (October 2011), I praised Steve Jobs for his role in th...