R&A IT Strategy & Architecture

Master or Servant? Are We Humans Still ‘Top Dogs’ in This Brave New World of Massive IT?

Posted by gctwnlon November 8, 2020November 16, 2020in Brittle Logic, Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Inertia, Information Revolution1 Comment

I'm speaking at the free online BILT conference on Nov 19 21:00 CET. Title: Master or Servant? Are We Humans Still 'Top Dog' in This Brave New World of Massive IT?

Modelling Networking in ArchiMate 3.1

Posted by gctwnlon October 26, 2020October 27, 2020in ArchiMate, Discussing ArchiMate, Modelling, Using ArchiMate7 Comments

ArchiMate has elements for networking. They're hardly used by anyone and they have some massive drawbacks. There is an alternative. You can model networking without them.

Chatbots: een plaag voor de mensheid

Posted by gctwnlon September 9, 2020February 25, 2021in AI, Background Knowledge1 Comment

Chatbots. Ze zijn overal tegenwoordig. En ze zijn vaak frustrerend slecht, niet meer dan een te nemen horde op weg naar een mens. Waarom zijn ze zo slecht? Misschien omdat de kern techniek van 30 jaar geleden is?

Chatbots: a scourge of humankind

Posted by gctwnlon September 9, 2020September 30, 2020in AI, Background Knowledge4 Comments

Chatbots. They're everywhere these days. They're also frustratingly poor, often just a hurdle to take to get to a human agent. Why are they so poor? Maybe because the core is technology from 30 years ago?

Key posts on IT

Posted by gctwnlon August 9, 2020November 5, 2021in Best Of, StickyLeave a comment

(What I consider to be) my key articles on (governance and fundamentals of) IT and EA in general. Easily accessible from here.

The Answer to the July 2020 ArchiMate Quiz

Posted by gctwnlon August 6, 2020August 6, 2020in ArchiMate, Discussing ArchiMate1 Comment

The answers to the July 2020 ArchiMate Quiz are given. The post analyses aspects of ArchiMate 3.1's derivation rules. The analysis links to more generic issues. Uncle Ludwig returns.

The July 2020 ArchiMate Quiz

Posted by gctwnlon July 22, 2020August 6, 2020in ArchiMate, Modelling17 Comments

The last quiz was quite a while ago I am sorry to say. But today I am offering a new one. My quizzes in the past often where there to illustrate some weirdness in ArchiMate or something that could trip…

Update to the Free ArchiMate Metamodel PDF sheets published

Posted by gctwnlon June 1, 2020January 13, 2021in ArchiMate, Using ArchiMateLeave a comment

After recently releasing the Russian version of my Free ArchiMate overview PDF download (updated from ArchiMate 3.0.1 to ArchiMate 3.1), I've published the English ones. Also available via the top menu of this site. Enjoy.

Обзор ArchiMate 3.1 PDF

Posted by gctwnlon May 22, 2020May 31, 2020in ArchiMate, Mastering ArchiMate, Using ArchiMate4 Comments

7 ноября прошлого года, вскоре после выхода ArchiMate 3.1, я написал, что, вероятно, обновлю свою книгу и блог об ArchiMate 3.1. Сегодня я выполняю свое обещание, выпустив небольшое обновление моих обзорных листов ArchiMate (ArchiMate Overview Sheets) — краткого визуального справочника…

Gossip, Trust and the Information Revolution (‘value’ vs. ‘values’)

Posted by gctwnlon March 4, 2020July 14, 2021in Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 47 Comments

Our massive use of IT (the information revolution with its information inertia and its fast but stupid behaviour) is enabling our innate behaviour to surge against our learned behaviour and that is severely damaging the social structures we humans have created. Why is this happening and what can we do about it?