Architecture, Data and Intelligence

My 2012 post on the Co-Production of Data and Knowledge offered a critique of the #DIKW pyramid. When challenged recently to propose an alt...

One of the interesting dynamics of the service economy lies in the dialectic opposition between open and proprietary. I have mentioned some ...

Many enterprise architecture frameworks contain some notion of maturity, usually with some kind of nod in the direction of the SEI CMMI matu...

In the knowledge economy, service providers often give away selected portions of their intellectual property, in the form of webinars, white...

Following Russell Ackoff , systems thinkers like to equate wisdom with systems thinking. As Nikhil Sharma points out, "the choice betwe...

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

Wikipedia defines Consilience as the unity of knowledge (literally a jumping together of knowledge), which has its roots in the ancient Gr...

# entarch A debate on Twitter about the power of enterprise architects (enhancing? enabling? influencing?), and another debate about the re...

@ SFDreverman asks (how) does unstructured knowledge hinder the collective intelligence of a group? To start with, I am slightly puzzled ...

@tetradian has an interesting post on Big EA, Little EA and Personal EA ., based loosely on Patti Ancram's classification of knowledge m...

A customary way of modelling an enterprise is as a collection of purposeful behaviours - functions or processes or capabilities or whatever....

@ snowded has started a series of blogposts about knowledge sharing across silos ( part one , part two ). He starts by identifying a number...

@ EnterprisingA (Jon Ayre) suggests an # EAMantra "If you know it, add it to your architecture. If you think you know it, add that to...

According to reports in the Financial Times, the Inland Revenue wishes to find a new IT contractor. Government IT outsourcing has been domi...