Information Revolution – R&A Enterprise Architecture

Don’t become an Enterprise/IT Architect…

Posted by gctwnlon July 31, 2021August 1, 2021in Enterprise Architecture, Information Inertia, Management and Organisation4 Comments

With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Strategist's position becomes more frustrating as a result.

How well does your top management understand IT?

Posted by gctwnlon April 30, 2021July 15, 2021in All Posts, Enterprise Architecture, Information Revolution, Management and Organisation6 Comments

I am proposing a way to 'measure' the 'understanding' the top of an organisation has — how capable it is of making informed strategic decisions — on a subject, e.g. legal, finance, or what is my particular interest: IT.

Perspectives on the Information Revolution

Posted by gctwnlon January 13, 2021March 7, 2021in Brittle Logic, Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Inertia, Information Revolution7 Comments

What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.

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?

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 46 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?

IT is us

Posted by gctwnlon February 28, 2020July 14, 2021in Extended Humans, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 38 Comments

The amount of IT we have brought in the world is turning the human species into something 'extended'. IT has behaviour and as such is an amplifier of our intentions. IT is us, it is inseparable from us. What culture does your organisation's IT embody?

A tipping point in the information revolution

Posted by gctwnlon February 11, 2020July 14, 2021in Enterprise Architecture, Information Inertia, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 213 Comments

Because of the sheer volume of IT in the world, the behaviour of IT itself is becoming more and more an 'independent' factor, and we humans are adapting to it. Digital enterprise, digital transformation, Agile and DevOps are all illustrations of this tipping pont in the information revolution.

Blame the mathematicians!

Posted by gctwnlon January 26, 2020July 14, 2021in Brittle Logic, Enterprise Architecture, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 113 Comments

Long ago, when computing started the ones starting it were mathematicians. This was logical as the machines were machines executing logic, the mathematician's bread and butter. This has led to a few side-effects that make it harder to manage IT well.

Something is (still) rotten in the kingdom of artificial intelligence

Posted by gctwnlon April 4, 2018August 9, 2020in AI, AI 1, Background Knowledge, Best Of 7, Information Revolution17 Comments

Nobody can deny that artificial intelligence (or machine learning, deep learning, or cognitive computing) is booming these days. And — as before, as this is in fact the second round for AI — the hype is almost unlimited. But there…