Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Continuing a series of posts on Uber's business model.  Much of this material also applies to Lyft and other similar operations. For pre...

There are several ways of thinking about platforms. Economists tend to view platforms as essentially containers for transactions. Canonica...

Aside from the discussion of Uber as a two-sided platform, addressed in my post on Uber Mathematics (Nov 2016), there is also a discussion ...

UK Court News. Uber has lost a test case in the UK courts, in which it argued that its drivers were self-employed and therefore not entitle...

A multi-sided platform business has the following characteristic features. 1. The platform serves two or more distinct categories of custo...

Heard an interesting story recently, from a software developer advocating Scrum. I shall omit the names of the companies and individuals, an...

# bizarch The obvious ones - Apple, Amazon , Microsoft General comments "The new market disruption is the migration of a large n...

#bizarch @ nickvitalari sees signs of resurgence at #Microsoft. Everyone Beware: Microsoft is Alive Again and May Become an Elastic Enterpr...

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

There are several characteristic features of so-called smart content. Content enhanced to be fit-to-purpose ... content that is organized ...

@ mkplantes sees the demise of Kodak as an intelligence failure. Put yourself in their Kodak leaders’ chairs for a moment and consider ...

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

Yesterday I was talking to a guy from a large media company about its social media strategy. The company is already successfully using socia...

#ukgovit @ instituteforgov has just published a report called System Error: Fixing the Flaws in Government IT . The report recommends a ...

What are the problems of large complex sociotechnical systems? How far do SOA and enterprise architecture help to address this problem space...

@ martingeddes believes that "voice telephony is a market full of potential for the service providers, applications developers and inn...

One of the ways to think about the complexity of SOA is as a multi-sided platform. Some of the pioneering work on multi-sided platforms ha...

Listening to Power Drive , a BBC radio programme on electric cars. (I heard the live broadcast yesterday evening, and I have now downloaded ...

This post starts by talking about the value proposition of Web 2.0, and then makes some more general points about the distribution of value ...

Last week in Banking as a Platform , I discussed how banks might use the platform concept (for example as discussed by Tom Steinthal in a p...