It seems like we are always running fast to go slow. Trying to track many things at once. Many moving pieces swirling around…Things getting started faster than things getting finished. The queues getting bigger. The unfinished business grows larger like this huge burden. Some of it just goes away because Read more…
The essence of what I have been talking about on this site are the challenges of information management and how we are mostly on the wrong track… It recently dawned on me that the problem is that information and time are infinite, but are resources to manage them are finite. Read more…
Information is infinite and yet we have this idea that we can come up with some sort of standard information design that works over and over again. A big part of the reason of why is that we have developed standards throughout the years. We have language standards, technical standards Read more…
Information practices are incredibly unlean. The 7 wastes from lean production of physical goods are: overproduction inventory motion defects over-processing waiting transport If you simplistically map each of these wastes to information technology, it is all there. We produce a ton of data, we store a ton of data, we Read more…
For a long time, I was fascinated with the metaphor of a machine for anything to do with information technology, but in reality IT is more abstract than that. The same inputs would produce the same outputs, but it doesn’t really seem to work that way. Information technology is more Read more…
Is there a way to break free of big tech and big information and unleash more innovation? While it may seem like big information has a stranglehold over us, I am wondering if there are viable small tech alternatives that would lead to more innovation. While big tech gains more Read more…
Coherency and relevancy are extremely important for any story. But it is difficult to maintain both for an extended period of time for any given audience. At a certain point, the story will either cease to be coherent or it will lose relevance. Ambiguity and contradiction are the enemy of Read more…
While I have been taking an undeserved break from working on this site, I have been marvelling at remote work capabilities across the planet. It is been hashed and rehashed about ‘knowledge’ work and how can work from anywhere and collaborate to get things done. In some ways, this is Read more…
Information systems tend to be hierarchical, agile, or ad hoc in nature. The structure kind of depends on the cadence of information of your work environment and industry. In some industries information moves fast, and in other industries the pace is much slower. In theory, everyone wants fast and precise. Read more…
If you’re not questioning the value of IT, you are not maximizing the value of information technology. Information processing is the key competency for any individual and how it works collectively for organizations. It is the commodity from which all other value is derived. Not to get all meta on Read more…