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
Category: On Technology
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
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
The Value of Blockchain
In my previous post I argued that the core problem blockchain addresses is disagreement among the interested parties about the historical states of an object - a rental car, an order for granola, the price of pork belly futures. That was sufficient to let us rule blockchain out as a viable technology for large class … Continue reading The Value of Blockchain
The Fundamental Problem Blockchain Addresses
The possible role of blockchain in an interoperability scenario has come up at work, as it has and will for many of you in various contexts. So I thought I would share a perspective on blockchain that might help you cut through the hype and determine its fit for a given solution design. Blockchain solves … Continue reading The Fundamental Problem Blockchain Addresses
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