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. …

Imagine listening to a conversation on sovereignty where no-one has any maps and therefore no-one can discuss borders but everyone wants to talk about the importance of mountains or hills or lakes or forests or roads. You would probably think it’s gibberish. Those are simply components that exist in a…

I lost my country but I gained a big pile of virtual gold. — In this post I’d like to discuss why I believe video games will become a new battleground for the soul of a country. Before I start, I will need to cover some basics. …

The next “next” generation — Just over a decade ago, I published the table in figure 1 to describe how organisations were shifting from a traditional form to a set of next generation behaviours. Whilst the table was welcome in some quarters, it was generally met with derision and comments of “this is just for…

On Forcing functions (For reference, reprint from Dec 2020, https://leadingedgeforum.com/insights/2020-the-isolation-economy/) Throughout history, the major changes to our workplace, to our organisations and even to our way of living have been driven by the industrialisation of technology. The automobile you drive is built upon layer upon layer of industrialised components from the steel to…

What happens in the corporate world post covid? The isolation economy caused by covid forced us to change. It forced us to accept pre-existing technology that we had resisted e.g. remote working, zoom calls and online collaboration became a necessity. As we overcame our inertia to change then this in turn allowed for new possibilities as the the…