Notwithstanding my exhortations against digital marketing creepiness, B2C digital marketers love to circumlocute around the notion of the purchase. “It’s all about the customer journey!”…
Given my years at ZapThink, fighting to help architects understand what Service-Oriented Architecture really was and how to get it right, it’s no surprise that…
In my last Cortex newsletter, I discussed the history of Conway’s Law, and took a close look at how this erstwhile law can help us…
Both digital transformation and devops are organizational and cultural transformations more so than they are technology changes – although in both cases, technology plays a…
In last week’s article for Forbes, I questioned the purpose of the radically innovative cybercurrency Bitcoin. Libertarians, criminals, speculators, and consumers all have an angle…
For those of us old timers who rode the dot.com rollercoaster, an era some people have retroactively labeled Web 1.0, today’s notion of digital offers…
Enterprise IT shops have long struggled with the dual challenges of homogeneity and heterogeneity. Homogeneous environments clearly had appeal: single-vendor shops would gain the benefits…
Warning: if you like a manageable inbox, then whatever you do, don’t get a press pass to the RSA Conference. I’ve had such passes to…
I’ve been writing about Agile Architecture for years – and in fact, I believe it is such a fundamental change in the way businesses deliver…
For our first annual April Fools issue of the Cortex, Intellyx will be answering the toughest questions in the universe. The answers presented here are…