This is the fourth in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. The Primacy of … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 4: The Primacy of Decision Contexts
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Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 3: The Increasing Perfection of Information
This is the third in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape and inform information technology work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 3: The Increasing Perfection of Information
Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative
This is the second in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. In today's … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative
Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 1: Purpose, Introduction, and Approach
Purpose Healthcare today is largely an information business. With the exception of the few moments of physical interactions with patients in diagnosis and treatment, prescriptions, and medical equipment, we all trade in information. Payers manufacture only good will. They sell and service a binding promise to pay some part of a person’s or family’s health-related … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 1: Purpose, Introduction, and Approach
CONQUER Part 3: Flames from Agile Burning in the Back Office Light the Way
This is the third part of a series describing the Command, Notify, Query (CONQUER) distributed systems architecture: distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their ends via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, notifications, and … Continue reading CONQUER Part 3: Flames from Agile Burning in the Back Office Light the Way
Your Knowledge Strategy: And Magic Filled the Air
In my last post, 'You Don't Need a Data Strategy, You Need A Knowledge Strategy,' I painted a high level sketch of why we need knowledge strategies, and the key features they need to address. I skipped ahead pretty quickly, rambling on<the time is now to sing my song /Zep> to cover a breadth of … Continue reading Your Knowledge Strategy: And Magic Filled the Air
You Don’t Need a Data Strategy, You Need a Knowledge Strategy
In my post "Throw Off Those 1960's Data Strategy Shackles" I suggested that the days of the Inmon/Kimball model strategy for analytics are past, sketched out a couple of notes on making events the atoms in our data strategies, and promised a longer answer to what our future states should look like. Continuing on that … Continue reading You Don’t Need a Data Strategy, You Need a Knowledge Strategy
CONQUER Part 2: The Will that Powers
This is the second part of a series describing the Command, Notify, Query (CONQUER) distributed systems architecture: distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their ends via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, notifications, and … Continue reading CONQUER Part 2: The Will that Powers
The CONQUER Architecture for Distributed Systems, Part 1 of Probably Too Many but Hopefully Just Enough
Some time between 2010 and 2013 I began thinking differently about integration, both among components of distributed applications and among distributed applications per se. I know the rough time span because I published an integration reference architecture here in 2010 that did not feature the new ideas, and one in 2013 that did - well, … Continue reading The CONQUER Architecture for Distributed Systems, Part 1 of Probably Too Many but Hopefully Just Enough
At Any Event, or at Every Event?
Still on the trail of conceptual clarity around events. In the last post in this - this is the third, so let's say 'series' - we discussed the difference in knowledge and data. I used the familiar-to-most query against a relational database to illustrate the difference. Let's return to that example for a moment. The … Continue reading At Any Event, or at Every Event?
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