The architecture of information

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• Michelangelo’s approach to workflow discovery

  2010/07/29 in Business Process Management

  Take any existing workflow — any people driven business process — and I expect that most of the tasks within it could best be described as cruft. cruft: /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from crufty] n. An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; the TMRC Dictionary correctly noted that attacking it [...]

• The sun-shaped individual

  2010/07/27 in Innovation, Posterous

  (Yep, this is a cross post from Stuff I find interesting, but the missive grew to the point that I thought it worthwhile putting it on this blog as well.) I stumbled across a rather interesting, and rather old (in internet terms), blog post today: T-Shaped + Sun-Shaped People by David Armano. I suppose you [...]

• What is innovation?

  2010/07/26 in Innovation

  What is innovation? I don’t know, but then I’m not even sure that it’s an interesting question. The yearning so many companies have to be innovative often seems to prevent them from actually doing anything innovative. They get so caught up in trying to come up with the next innovation — the next big product [...]

• Who gets the credit: the innovator or the implementer?

  2010/07/24 in Innovation

  Who should get the credit? The person to came up with the idea? Or the person to did something with it? I’m with the implementers. Thomas Edison might be remembered for the lightbulb, but Samuel Insull‘s hard work enabled everyone to have one in their homes. We also forget that it wasn’t even Edison who [...]

• Taxonomies 1, Semantic Web (and Linked Data) 0

  2010/07/08 in Business-Technology

  I’m not a big fan of Semantic Web[1]. For something that has been around for just over ten years — and which has been aggressively promoted by the likes of Tim Berners-Lee[2] — very little real has come of it. Taxonomies, on the other hand, are going gangbusters, with solutions like GovDirect[3] showing that there [...]