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Digital transformation through cloud
Go to the books section The world is constantly changing and organizations must adapt to the new needs of their […]
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Small language models, affordable AI
We have all heard about LLMs (Large Language Models) and how they are capable of holding conversations, providing a wide […]
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Architecture | Cloud | Data | Digital Transformation | Governance and management | Leadership | Mobility
More to come
Lately, I haven’t been able to write as many posts as I would like, and this will continue to be […]
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The power of no
For some time I have been thinking about writing about the powerful word NO and by chance, a few days […]
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The art of scenarios: anticipating the future with strategic vision
We are all aware of the uncertainty in which we constantly live. The famous VUCA environments (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and […]
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Automation with AI
In previous posts we have talked about how LLMs are changing the way we perform tasks and how they can […]
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Vibe Coding: Revolution or passing fad?
For a long time, the software industry has been trying to democratize the creation of applications. The transformation began a […]
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MCP and A2A, a perfect tandem
If there is one area in which news is produced daily, it is the area of artificial intelligence. New models, […]
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AI Agents
Maybe because of the image someone thinks that we will talk about special agents like 007, but no, we will […]
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Diagrams that tell stories
In life we use different maps to represent different aspects of a particular area. Thus, we have political, geographical, climatic, […]
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The problem and the cause
These days, I have been thinking about a class I attended during my time at university, where the professor of […]
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The art of setting goals
Not long ago, we talked about the importance of measuring what really matters, to avoid taking measures of irrelevant issues, […]
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Measuring what matters
Measurement alone is not enough; it is important to understand how to measure, what to measure and, above all, how to interpret and act on those measured data, otherwise we may even obtain a result contrary to the intended one.
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Lock-in. Why not?
In our day-to-day searching for solutions to optimize operations, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and keep our customers happy, we find […]
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Bitemporal databases, the database time machine
Sometimes, due to business requirements, we need to manage complex information related to time and its history.In this context, bitemporal […]
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How data moves
Data-driven world companies rely heavily on the seamless flow of information to maintain efficiency, make informed decisions, and stay competitive. […]
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Thinking as a whole
We often think only about our job (“I am my position”) and have little sense of responsibility for the overall results when all the parts interact. This can lead to suboptimal solutions.
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Maximizing the benefit
Sometimes when we want to improve a process, we only pay attention to cost and time reduction. Approaching the improvement of a process as a benefit maximization work instead of pure reduction, can lead to new revenues and business models.
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Simplifying reasoning
Apart from the well-known Occam’s razor, there are many other laws or principles that can help us understand how a situation has been arrived at, why someone reasons the way he or she does, or what to expect in the face of certain events. Here we review some of them.
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Prompting
Every now and then we can find new news about generative artificial intelligence (generative AI). Much of this is due […]
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Wardley Maps
Among the strategy analysis tools, we find Wardley Maps, which are not very widespread but simple to use and very […]
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Risk Appetite
A few days ago I was discussing with a colleague the concept of “risk appetite” and how, depending on it, […]
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Internal developer platform, IDP
We have probably heard many times about Customer experience (CX) or user experience (UX). For those of you who haven’t, […]
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Databases, what a mess!
We have heard many times that data is one of the most valuable (if not the most valuable) asset of companies. But there are many types of databases available and it is crucial to understand the differences in order to use the most appropriate one in each context. From traditional relational databases to graph databases, each has its own characteristics, strengths and preferred use cases.
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Sunk cost fallacy
Sunk cost is an economic concept that refers to costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. These […]
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Transforming Decisions
Analytics in Action – Descriptive, Diagnostic, Prescriptive and Predictive
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Architecture | Cloud | Data
Kafka
As part of the Collins dictionary we can find the word kafkaesque with the following meaning “of, characteristic of, or […]
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The naked truth
Who hasn’t ever felt that they don’t understand what is going on in their own company, or felt that there […]
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TCO, the real cost of the things
My father used to say that everyone looks to see if they have the money to be able to buy […]
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Hawthorne Effect
The first time I heard about the Hawthorne effect was during my engineering studies. Although it is an effect that […]
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Big Data / Small Data
Recently, during one of the classes I am teaching on data management, one of the students asked me about the […]
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Cloud Costs
In today’s digital era, cloud adoption has become a strategic imperative for companies of all sizes and kinds. We can […]
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What if…?
“What if” scenarios are tools used in planning and analysis to help organizations anticipate and prepare for possible futures. These […]
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Strategy
When we define business strategies, it is sometimes difficult to communicate them to the rest of the teams and see […]
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Deus Ex Machina
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been in the spotlight for the last decade, driving significant changes in most sectors. Within AI, […]
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DORA
Although it may seem from the image that we will talk about Dora the explorer, it is not so; although […]
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All space/time tends to become occupied
A few days ago I was reading an article about the massive layoffs at Twitter, and how despite the drastic […]
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Kintsugi
We live in an era in which the concept of throwaway is something very normal, but it has not always […]
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Is not Murphy is Conway
During the design stage of a system, regardless of the field to which we refer, many factors are considered, which […]
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DevEx: the developer experience
These days we are talking with colleagues at work about how to streamline several parallel developments that are being done […]
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Share the experience
These last few days I have been engaged in an adventure that many people go through in their lives: assembling […]
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A-TEAM
A few days ago I had the pleasure of attending some meetings with the team, where we took the opportunity […]
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K8S patterns
Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool very useful for the implementation of microservices and widely used by companies. One of […]
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Please document
Documentation is very important in every organization, no matter if we are talking about traditional or modern organizations. Documenting designs […]
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Each task its own tool
Surely, while doing some kind of repair around the house, we have all used a tool for a purpose other […]
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C4 Intro
Previously we were talking about the importance of having a common modeling language for the design of applications in the […]
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The importance of the shared code
I remember when I was a child at school they used to talk to us about the factors of communication […]
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Local and Global Objectives
In the business world it is common to fix objectives defined at different levels, for example some personal, others local […]
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Back to school
With the arrival of the new school year, I often hear people say how lucky we older people are that […]
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Architecture | Cloud | Data | Digital Transformation | Governance and management | Leadership | Mobility
Here it is
After the vacations, a new school year begins. Back to work, back to school; or as some call it, back […]
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Keep It Simple S*****
Summer is a time to rest, to disconnect, to not think about work, or at least ideally. We leave the […]
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End-to-end processes
The so-called end-to-end processes or value chains are well known in the ERP world, but they have proven to be […]
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The era of platforms
Oil has long been called the black gold and we would often see oil platforms in movies as a symbol […]
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⭙Ops I did it again
MLOps, DevOps, DataOps are some of the terms we see more and more frequently to refer to certain IT operations. […]
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The culture of failure
When we are born, we don’t know how to talk, we don’t know how to walk, and we don’t even […]
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Let’s play building blocks: The Composable Enterprise
It is a fact that changes are occurring faster and faster, people do not have the same likes and needs […]
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Never give up
Today I had planned to post on another topic, but the truth is that everyone is talking about what happened […]
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Data value
These days I am preparing a lecture on the value of information and data (seen as information) as a driver […]
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The blank sheet
Today, after a few years, I am facing the blank page again, starting a new book on business transformation and […]
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We are not alone: Systems Thinking
There is a Chinese proverb that says, “The slight flapping of a butterfly’s wings can be felt on the other […]
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Happy new era of Management 3.0
Companies and businesses have evolved, and with them the style of leadership and management. We can find many ways to […]
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IT has no value for the business
The reader may not agree with the title, but if we specify a little more and say that IT has […]
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Data, data and more data
For a long time, organizations and entities have been storing data for further processing and obtaining information, but what does […]
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DevOps, more than development and operations
We are all familiar with the concept of DevOps, but it is very likely that many people think of it […]
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Time For New Business Models
Technology is part of our daily lives, every action we take is surrounded by technology, from making reservations at our […]
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From monolithic to event-driven architectures, a brief review of the journey
Until not so long ago, the most normal way of approaching the construction of a software solution was in a monolithic way, all […]
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The people, stupid
Maybe we have heard someone say “I don’t have customers”; for example, a person who is dedicated to enter orders […]
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DevSecOps, a perfect symbiosis.
In the last few days I have had the opportunity to talk with people from different fields about development issues […]
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Let’s have the head in the clouds III
We already know a little about the main types of cloud computing options available (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), and the degree of management […]
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Let’s have the head in the clouds II
In a previous post, Sara and Daniel helped us to learn about the different cloud computing options that providers offer […]
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Let’s have the head in the clouds
Every day we hear terms related to cloud computing, terms like PaaS, SaaS and others. But what do they mean? […]
