Oftentimes, I receive queries about agile development and architecture.  In fact, all development has an architecture that is either explicit or implicit- you should favour explicit architecture so you know what you are getting!  Architecture can be agile- as the project progresses models are refined and

What do you mean by “Digital” – are you referring to digital connections to your customers, or digital process optimisation in your business or whole new digitally enabled business models?  Often each of these approaches is seen as a new system implementation and the role

In my first and second posts, I discussed fundamental principles behind data processing and showed how they enable or constrain the sorts of questions we can ask information systems. In this post, I will show how the framework of MapReduce processing determines the people-value side

In my last post I showed how traditional database technology is founded upon the concept of a relation and discussed how this had implications in terms of limiting the number of questions we could expect to answer from any given database.  In this post, I will

This is the first of a series of posts where I will investigate Big Data concepts at a very fundamental level.  If you have been reading my earlier posts which are pretty high level and accepted, bear with me for this post and the following

Today, many institutions have core machine learning use cases well met by utilising advanced statistical packages in the areas of risk and fraud detection, recommendation and cross-sell, segmentation, optimisation, computational advertising and many other areas.  Many other organisations though, are faced with little capability in this

What do you think about IT architecture?  To stakeholders, architecture may seem like a costly exercise that yields blueprints and little else.  And yet, architecture is essential if you wish to maximise the value of your IT investments.  I’ll explain a little about why this