Obviously constructed by those with extensive familiarity with bureaucratic resistance to positive change.
My only significant concern is the accent on “real-time” adds momentum to an existing IC bias for warp speed “reporting” over “depth” – both in terms of predictive analysis as well as an emphasis on clandestine collection of hard to acquire information, something that requires investment, imagination, persistence and time. The wide dissemination aspect though was really great; an attempt to leverage the advantages of possessing critical information ( Art Cebrowski would have applauded) and get the IC out of the need-to-know-basis/ Cold War mindset.
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Critt Jarvis:
August 19th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Primitives of a really big enterprise architecture:
“physical units at their core and virtual units with presence throughout their areas of responsibility”
Let’s say your business is to develop ATM that’s sat-linked, solar-powered, and pre-loaded with life and crop insurance and micro-loan capabilities, you’ll need to consider both physical and virtual structures that enable coherence and resilience.
Physical and virtual, action and technology.
mark:
August 19th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Hey Critt,
“…ATM that’s sat-linked, solar-powered, and pre-loaded with life and crop insurance and micro-loan capabilities”
Interestingly enough, American insurance companies have always ( “have always” being defined as the last forty or so years at least)used small rural farming communities as test sites for new insurance products. If it didn’t play in Peoria then the new product was quickly ashcanned.
My question here though for your ATM, which seems like an ideal tech solution for countries without a real infrastructural base, is dealing with two levels of culture shock.
Curiousity about the machine will overcome the alieness of the tech but you will need some level of human interface/community intro to handle scenarios with high adult illiteracy levels.
Thought you’d like the physical & virtual model. Physical core and virtual nodes is a good paradigm
larrydunbar:
August 19th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
“Curiousity about the machine will overcome the alieness of the tech but you will need some level of human interface/community intro to handle scenarios with high adult illiteracy levels.”
Aw yes the monolith, “open the pod doors Hal.” It seemed to work out ok without “human” interface, ha!
I watched TPMB on Cspan 2 this Friday. The image of the ATM falling from the sky was a nice touch. Didn’t really make the “connection” until now, possibly it’s because I was born before 1960?
Critt Jarvis:
August 20th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Beyond simple Automatic Teller Machines, I was imagining devices using Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). You know, boxes with automated rule sets for development projects, networked. The connections would enable coherence, resilience.
Larry Dunbar:
August 20th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
“You know, boxes with automated rule sets for development projects, networked.”
I think places like Africa, in the past, had automated rule sets used for development that were networked . I think they called them missionaries. I suppose it depends on what kind of cohesiveness and resilience you are talking about.
papadavo:
August 24th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Larry Dunbar’s insight on networked rule sets in Africa—MISSIONARIES– is a beauty – this insight gives me some idea of what Critt is trying to build –
“They will comprise physical units at their core and virtual units with presence throughout their areas of responsibility.”- when speaking about the intelligence “community”.
and here I thought that ConversationBase was a cheap way to create content for driving google adsense dollars to help Critt generate cash flow.
If you look at the links in the tool bar on ConversationBase you get the idea.– all google ads – when will they appear connected to CB content?
Not that I disagree with making money while informing important conversations- just a different sort of missionary practice.
Google has had explosive growth as the world’s largest advertising agency driven by mountains of
FREE content from the web.
If AdSense is a component in the yet to be disclosed CB business model – I applaud the cleverness of it all.
who needs a business model when google has developed it for you?
Dave Davison
mark:
August 24th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Hi Dave,
Could the Adsense Critt is running really make all that much money? Conversationbase trafficis hardly Instapundit.com. Dang – perhaps I should look into this adsense thing and start throwing up occasional posts designed to generate search engine hits…. ;O)