Wouldn't It Be Nice If

Ways of thinking about the world when technology and business in collide

  • Are We Nearly There Yet?

    It’s been a while since my last post here, distractions of family life and all of that, but also a little bit of despondency setting in. Since starting on my journey in Systems Practice well over 10 years ago, I felt like the little boy looking at the emperor as he passed by on the… Read more

  • Do we need a “third way” in Systems?

    Heresy or well meaning intervention? A couple of days ago I read the article: Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline by Iyad Rahwan & Manuel Cebrian. The piece asks if we need to consider new ways of thinking about what we are potentially creating with our developments in Artificial Intelligence , or “AI”.… Read more

  • The Big “O” is coming

    I’ve blogged elsewhere about my dismay at fads in IT: “Enterprise Architecture”, and “Big Data” being a couple that I may have mentioned. Today I am recording what I think is going to be the next big fad, but one that I believe is becoming increasingly necessary. I’ll name it now rather than keep you… Read more

  • Sneaking in the Systems Thinking

    Several years ago I started my course with the Open University in Systems Thinking in Practice. At that time it was pretty much new, I was on the first cohort for the Systemic Inquiry module, and the second cohort for the Systems Tools for Strategic Thinking module. I understand that, several years later, the modules… Read more

  • Was the Termintor wrong? It seems so

    Is “Data Insights” going to replace “Big Data”. Forrester Research think so, but I’m not so convinced Read more