Bridging between Aspiration and Delivery
HR and recruitment seem to be careering towards a slow-motion train wreck, where is the brake pedal? And what happened to the windscreen? Approximately 10% of the global payroll is squandered on recruitment and HR with not the slightest hint of a measurement to suggest that it returns anything at all. That’s enough money … Read more
If you have read my stuff in the past, you will have heard me talk at times abut the importance of analysing and managing the impact of organisational behaviour in order to make changes happen effectively or indeed to make them happen at all. Even the most complex technical systems I ever rolled out in … Read more
Sometimes it is not just what you do but the order in which you do it that matters. You absolutely must develop an ability to see several layers of consequences ahead of the solution as well as several layers of cause and effect behind the problem and then juggle them at once in the way … Read more
I was recently asked to contribute to a maturity model for big data. Anyone who knows me will have guessed that I declined this, but it did get me thinking about the lack of a big picture understanding of the corporate information landscape and a framework to leverage. This is not a potted five-page Maturity … Read more
There was a time when I billed myself as a turnaround specialist. Doing turnarounds was often a fast-track to good long-term relationships for an interim or consultant. I’m not going to bore you with the usual list of coded answers about why they fail, but rather to say that most failures have not actually … Read more
The background is a Must-Read. Big data was announced to me in 2011 when I was busy trying to create some insight from more than 100 acquisitions of a global publisher. Back then it meant Hadoop, Nosql and instant processing as opposed to Data Warehouses, Data Marts and BI services. By 2013 the word Data … Read more
First lets understand the difference. Waterfall is the most misquoted of all methods. Waterfall is defined by the simple fact that each stage in the project must complete fully and be agreed/signed-off before the next stage can begin. Sometimes it is very important that the previous stage was fully and correctly completed. An example would … Read more
This is a discussion about Digital transformation that addresses mostly the approach to delivering transformation and the rationale and drivers, but I have stayed away from some very important themes such as how to develop strategies for tomorrow, how to prepare an organisation or the change and how to lead the organisation into a … Read more
Really! – Have you seen this new stuff?
This could easily have been Mick Jagger and Keith Richards after their first successful gig. In the modern world, it is more likely to be a hard working CTO talking to a COO about his systems needs
Bitcoin is simply a digital representation of cash, the stuff we used to exchange with shopkeepers before cards came along. The problems with cards are many but the biggest one is that: 1. There is no degree of anonymity as associated with Cash 2. You never know for sure who you are accepting payment form … Read more
It is nothing more than a harmless mathematical algorithm that converts your information into unintelligible rubbish to the extent that that it is pretty much impossible to retrieve and read it without the Public key. Blowfish, AES RC4, RC5, and RC6 are examples of encryption algorithms. By giving someone the Public key they can achieve … Read more
It is impossible to discuss cryptocurrency without understanding inflation. It is a simple concept that causes massive confusion. Even politicians with fiscal responsibility can be heard mailing huge gaffes in public. There are two ways of viewing inflation that are two sides of the same coin and hence the problem for many. The definition . … Read more
Enterprise Architecture (EA) describes a framework or discipline whereby somebody or some group within an enterprise carefully designs the Technical Architecture and Solution Architecture around the business strategy, plans and needs of the Enterprise to effectively achieve it’s objectives. The alternative and by far the most common scenario if for organisations to make isolated decisions … Read more
This means exactly the same thing as Application and we also talked about it meaning much the same as App and web app. As best I can remember the name began to be used around the time Microsoft introduced Visual studio. Of course we all know what happened to the hapless word after that. “The … Read more
This is a Web page that looks and acts like a mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. Web apps provide viewers with a the same experience as using mobile. They are almost equivalent today but still fall a little behind native Apps in terms of access to the underlying phone’s data and services. The … Read more