For some time now I have been thinking about structures, classifications, compression, security, scaling, and synthesis for the anticipated big data storm that will be created by mobile health. Even with a healthy dose of de-hyped skepticism, the mobile health data storm promises record high sustained winds, with much higher gusts. An extension of the Internet and Web, which is often compared to a global hydro network or an electric grid, mobility also contains dynamics more comparable to solar winds, complete we hope with personalized recipes that will positively impact human behavior, diagnostics, and therapies….. Read More
Complex Adaptive Healthcare
My wife Betsy and I attended a very interesting lecture last night hosted by the Santa Fe Institute by Dr. Tim Buchman, Ph.D., M.D. who is and external professor at SFI.
Dr. Buchman’s day job is Founding Director of Emory Center for Critical Care and Professor of Surgery at Emory School of Medicine. The title of of Dr. Buchman’s lecture was: Secrets of the Heart: The Electrocardiogram, Complex Systems Science and Fundamental Laws of Biology. Read More
Clear Choice: Semantic Structure or Systemic Crises
I was recently approached by a consultant who came out of “big oil”. This person was writing a book on credibility and making the ancient pitch that perception is reality—all that mattered was the perception of the oil industry. We exchanged about a dozen emails on the Gulf disaster, innovation, and crisis prevention, until I… Read More
Hidden costs of complexity in the enterprise
Similar to healthcare, education, and finance where complexity creep has been manipulated for long periods until surpassing sustainability, enterprise software has become primarily a game of ‘heads I win; tails you lose’ for those paying the bills. While the first generation of enterprise software provided a strong competitive advantage to early adopters, the bulk of systems have long since resembled a tax on admission. Read More
SFI video lectures on innovation
The professor giving the lecture is Andrew Hargadon, who currently holds the Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at UC Davis. Professor Hagadon Blogs here, and a brief interview on the series is located here.
SFI is kind enough to offer the two videos freely on the web, each of which is about 90 minutes in length. I watched both lectures within 24 hours of writing this, so they are still fresh. I agree with about 90% of Andrew’s lecture so highly recommend it, although the recommendation will come with a brief critique, and a warning regarding the other 10%. Read More
Systemic Failures in Cyber Security
I’d like to offer a very important point that most are missing in this and other similar issues.
You correctly describe the problem as systemic, which is a term we’ve been using for well over a decade to describe a myriad of problems, including security in computer networks.
If the problem is truly systemic, and I think it is, then it can only be addressed successfully with a systemic cure. Central to the core of this challenge is the anonymity of the Internet, which identifies computers, networks, and web sites, but not the humans that abuse them.
Despite populism, comfort zones, and conflicting business models, human identity is a corner stone of the Internet that was never built into the system design, and so ever since all manner of temporary brace has been employed to shore up the fragile architecture. Read More
Systemic failure requires new holistic cure
As I scanned mass media’s response to the latest terrorist incident, I found very little evidence from representatives of our democracy either in government or journalism who understand the complex issues involved with prevention of systemic crises. The nature of our political system is that we often hear from political appointees rather than functional experts. Compounding the problem is that our mass media culture usually considers experts only from mainstream institutions, which are in fact where many of the crises have been born in recent years. Read More
Web 3.0 Leaders Look to the Year Ahead
Jenny Zaino at SemanticWeb.com asked a group of us to provide predictions for 2010. An interesting mix and worth a close look, particularly for those seeking input from the front lines of Web innovation.
Maya in the global parcel delivery business
A few months ago we decided to produce a series of papers in story telling format to better communicate the value of our Kyield system for decision makers in large organizations, rather than the normal highly technical use cases written and consumed primarily within the scientific community: ‘Semantic Scenarios for the Intelligent Enterprise’. I just posted… Read More
