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 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)…
THE APPLICATION JUNGLE
October 26, 2009 at 2:41 PM | Posted 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 | Posted 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 | Posted 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 | Posted in e-Discovery, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical, Unified Business Information | 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…
InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #3
October 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM | Posted in e-Discovery, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical | Leave a commentTags: big pharma, biotech, collaborative workspaces, data, Einstein, innovation, joint ventures, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, multi-party interactions, network, Pharmaceutical
Tuesday pm, Philadelphia, PA
We often get asked why we serve upstream Oil and Gas and Pharma; why these two industries? What do they have in common? Perhaps these observations from the trenches at the InnovationWell conference will help set things in context and make it clear that there really is more method to our perceived madness!. Continue Reading InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #3…
InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #2
October 12, 2009 at 3:26 PM | Posted in e-Discovery, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical, Technical | Leave a commentTags: context, data, e-Discovery, handling knowledge, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical, Technology
Monday am
The session where I presented was very energetic, lot of open productive discussions, and lessons learned. Most people are from discovery but a few have early development and clinical backgrounds. Others were from technology companies.. Continue Reading InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #2…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – Part IV: Databases Have One-Track Minds
October 8, 2009 at 10:54 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | 1 CommentTags: corporate leadership, data-centric services, fluid access to knowledge, handling knowledge, intuitive decisions, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, single-track processes, strategic decisions
In our last post we talked about the difference between data and knowledge, and how databases are good at handling the former, and bad at handling the latter.
Related to this, and another nail in the coffin of the database, is the fact that databases have a one-track mind when it comes to processes, as well.. Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – Part IV: Databases Have One-Track Minds…
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