LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
November 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM | In Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Long Live Ontologies, Ontology | Leave a CommentTags: brain, contexts, faceted search, higher-order intelligence, institutional memory, Knowledge Management, neuroscience, Ontology, organizational intelligence, orienteering, search, Security, workflow
The seat of corporate intelligence is the organizational ‘brain’ – a central hub that provisions and securely, intelligently makes available the institutional knowledge resources to its employees, enabling them to discover, learn, and work in concert toward a common purpose.
As we discussed in the last blog, the brain is a complex thing, and we are therefore not going to attempt to recreate it in all its glory. Instead, we seek to borrow a few key principles from the human brain to create institutional memory and a kind of higher-order ‘intelligence’ within the corporate body. Continue reading LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE…
LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART III: IT KIND OF *IS* BRAIN SURGERY…
November 6, 2009 at 2:51 PM | In Elegant Simplicity, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Long Live Ontologies, Ontology | 1 CommentTags: brain, consciousness, creativity, Einstein, human brain, interneuronal, neuron, neuroscience, Ontology, organizational creation, Pharma, Shakespeare, subconscious decisions, upstream Oil & Gas exploration
The human brain is a truly astonishing apparatus.
With up to 33 billion neurons (depending on your gender and age), 10,000 synapses per neuron, and 200 decisions per interneuronal connection per second, your brain is theoretically capable of somewhere on the order of 66 million billion calculations, insights, and decisions every second. Continue reading LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART III: IT KIND OF *IS* BRAIN SURGERY……
PointCross 10th Anniversary
November 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM | In Future of IT, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical | 1 CommentToday is our 10th birthday – November 4th, 1999 was the day we started in business with little more than an idea and a trivial amount of seed capital. You have been with us since our early days – encouraging us, supporting us, and guiding us. All of us at PointCross join in thanking you for your belief in us.
I would like to share with you a few of our accomplishments of the past 10 years and some of our aspirations for the future. Continue reading PointCross 10th Anniversary…
LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART II: BIRDS OF STEEL FEATHERS
October 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM | In Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Long Live Ontologies, Ontology | 1 CommentTags: airplane invention, anatomical study, Ancient Greece, center of gravity, Daniel Bernoulli, feather alignment, horse power, Kitty Hawk, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Mount Ceceri, ontologies, wing structure, Wright brothers
In the last post we discussed how one of the most practical inventions of the last century was invented by departing drastically from its predecessor: wheels instead of hooves and steering wheels instead of reins. In fact, about the only thing that the horse and the car have in common is that they are both run on “horse power.”
But there was another invention from about the same time that had been centuries in the making, and unlike the automobile, it took its inspiration directly from its counterpart in nature. We are talking about the airplane. Continue reading LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART II: BIRDS OF STEEL FEATHERS…
LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART I: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION (OR HOW THE AUTOMOBILE KILLED THE HORSE)
October 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM | In Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Long Live Ontologies, Ontology | 1 CommentTags: Automobile, Clayton Christensen, Death of the Database, Henry Ford, innovation, IT, Knowledge Management, Ontology, simpler and more affordable
We started the “Death of the Database” series by talking about how the Automobile killed the Horse.
But as we discussed, the automobile didn’t actually kill the horse – it just made the horse moot. The car was a creation so far superior that the horse was no longer a desirable option for most people. The car was faster, more powerful, more comfortable, and easier to maintain than the horse. It was scalable (some of the larger earlier models rivaled small trams in size, and now of course we have the Hummer) and it was adaptive (the Ford Mustang evolved more in a decade than its namesake in the animal kingdom had evolved over the last 2,000 years). It also didn’t hurt that cars were less… messy than horses. Continue reading LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART I: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION (OR HOW THE AUTOMOBILE KILLED THE HORSE)…
THE APPLICATION JUNGLE
October 26, 2009 at 2:41 PM | In Future of IT, IT Architecture, Technical | Leave a CommentTags: company’s architecture, enterprise, exponential complexity, Knowledge Management, mess of applications, Ontology, Technology
Most corporations today are a mess of hundreds or thousands of applications all promising to solve one problem or another. We call this jumbled mess the Application Jungle.
The problem is that for the last 50 years or so technology applications have burgeoned inside enterprise walls so that companies can no longer see the forest for the trees. Continue reading THE APPLICATION JUNGLE…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART VII: WHY DB PLATFORMS TAKE YEARS AND FORTUNES TO IMPLEMENT
October 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM | In Death of the Database, Elegant Simplicity, Future of IT, Knowledge Management | Leave a CommentTags: business processes, can-do spirit, complex operations, data, ERP solutions, Hubble telescope, IT companies, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, MIT, simplicity, system integrators, Technology
Of all of the reasons that databases and most of the applications that sit on top of them should and eventually will die or evolve, we admit that this is the one that bothers us the most.
First of all, a company’s business processes should not be made to bend to a technology solution, and yet that is what many ERP solutions and other traditional database technologies ask of a company.
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART VI: YOUR IT SECURITY IS SCREWED UP
October 19, 2009 at 11:38 AM | In Death of the Database, Elegant Simplicity, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | Leave a CommentTags: Contextual Networks, data, elegantly simple, handling knowledge, IT, IT security, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, orchestra, sophisticated, Technology
We hate to be the ones to tell you, but your IT security is probably screwed up.
If your company is anything like most companies, its security is probably based on formal organizational roles. This seems like a good idea at first, because Vice-Presidents should have more access to information than junior analysts, right? Continue reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART VI: YOUR IT SECURITY IS SCREWED UP…
InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #4
October 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM | In Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical, Unified Business Information, e-Discovery | Leave a CommentTags: biologists, Bryn Mawr, concepts, contexts, CROs, data, data modelers, Douglas Connect, Frank Tobin, InnovationWell, IT, Knowledge Management, mathematicians, Merck, Moffett research center, pharma scientists, Pharmaceutical, scientists, Semantic Data Exchanger, semantics, standardization challenges, standardizing data, Systems Biology, Technology, Usha Reddy
Wednesday am, Philadelphia, PA
I spent this morning in a fascinating session on the Systems Biology and Biomarkers session. The presenters and audience were a real eclectic mix of pharma scientists, biologists, mathematicians, data modelers, IT – and us, of course – the type that spans all boxes. Continue reading InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #4…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART V: SQL = SEEK WELL? WE DON’T THINK SO
October 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM | In Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | Leave a CommentTags: business requirements, DBA certification, game of Telephone, lost in translation, real-world language, sql
Getting to exactly the data you need in a database usually requires either perfect software (yeah right) or a four-year degree and a DBA certification.
The fact is that traditional database architectures serve IT, not the business, locking business users out of their own knowledge. Continue reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART V: SQL = SEEK WELL? WE DON’T THINK SO…
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