1.0 INTRODUCTION The Fourth Industrial Revolution ( Industry 4.0[1]) has been described as revolutionising the global business landscape. It is the “next phase in the digitization of manufacturing”[2]. …

Autonomous vehicles, digital twins, last-mile delivery, ridesharing, micro-mobility, transport hubs, hyperloop, decarbonisation, flying taxis and informatics — the field of transportation is as electrified as the batteries that are supposed to power tomorrow’s vehicles. Or maybe they won’t? Maybe the future is hydrogen? Given all the excitement and areas competing…

Introduction Over the last 15 months, I’ve been working on a research project that looks at the question of investment in a hybrid technology (old and new) world. Should I invest in the cloud or build a platform or spend on AI or maybe shift to serverless or deploy some IoT…

It’s an interesting question. There are some that use maps to challenge what they’re doing i.e. “Why are those racks custom-built?” There are others who use maps to apply the right methods — whether project management or purchasing or finance i.e. “Where should we use agile?”

Why the fuss about conversational programming? Part II — In my last post on conversational programming I asked the reader to “get yourself ready for a world of conversational programming” but I wasn’t willing to call it for ChatGPT or the existing crop of LLMs. My advice was one of preparation and not nailing any colours to a mast…

Why the fuss about conversational programming? Part I. — It’s not widely talked about yet, but it will be. To understand why, I’m going to build on my previous HackerNoon post on “Why the fuss about serverless”. That post discussed the historical rise of DevOps associated with changing characteristics of compute (the shift from high to low MTTR), the…

August 2022 update. — In March this year, we started a research group looking into the issue of defence and where to invest. It meets every two weeks, for one hour. So far, it has spent about eleven hours exploring the topic together. The initial discussion was a scatter of ideas from sea drones…

July 2022 update. — The research project that I started in March this year is focused on whether we can use mapping to improve our investments in the future. Investment choices are questions we face all the time. Should we be investing in AI or maybe security? Given “European politicians duped into deepfake video…

On the different types of situational awareness. I’m a bit of a stuck record when it comes to supply chains, situational awareness and mapping. In order to get myself off the subject, I thought I’d have a bit of a rant about this bugbear of a topic. …