LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
November 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM | Posted 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 | Posted 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……
LONG LIVE ONTOLOGIES! PART II: BIRDS OF STEEL FEATHERS
October 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM | Posted 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 | Posted 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)…
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