I call this "zombie data" because it: * Lacks any self-awareness * Doesn't remember where it came from * Has no relationship to its current context * Infects everyone it touches with that same mindlessness.
The Reporting Control Center
aka Quilt Data Hub or Lightdash 2.0? Challenge Can I evangelizea corporate data platformby just emailing out reportswith sufficiently smart URLs? Rationale I don't have the powerto pull others onto a new platform.But I can push useful data to othersin a way that inspires them to participate more directly with the platform Proposal Replace friendly... Continue Reading →
The Coherency Manifesto: Towards Communal Data Platforms
Version 1.0: Sep 11, 2021 (Interdependence Day) As a communitywho produces, consumes, and manages datawe hold these truths to be self-evident: Our most precious resource as a community is our ability to make better decisions together ("Coherency")Better decisions are enabled by higher Quality DataCoherency increases as our Communal Data Platform aligns the Syntax of producers... Continue Reading →
SyncHouse: MVC for Enterprise SaaS
A concrete proposal for Imagining a Data Resort as enforcing a Model-View-Controller architecture across multiple Software-as-a-Service applications. The key is replacing transient enterprise data integrations with a persistent "sync house," and making that the one full-service Source of Truth for data, schemas, and business logic. Ingest data from Salesforce, NetSuite, etc. (e.g., Stitch/Talend, FiveTran)Store raw... Continue Reading →
D.R.I.P.: Platform Thinking for Lean Startups
Define Terms, flows, roles, success criteria, open questions Research Characterize and identify Customer Zero Implement Enable Customer Zero to deploy a minimally viable app Productize Deliver a coherent and sustainable ecosystem
Transforming the Bay with Christ: A Platform Analysis
My series of four articles (plus a postscript) analyzing the regional spiritual renewal initiative Transforming the Bay with Christ: A Platform for Regional Transformation? From Platforms to Governance Trading Control for Authority The Process for Products TBC Postscript: A Missional Creed
TBC Postscript: A Missional Creed
I believe the mission of Transforming the Bay with Christ is to:
Mobilize, Unify, and Grow the Body of Christ
To Bless the San Francisco Bay Area
Through the Transforming Power of the Cross
TBC 4: The Process for Products
One of the key insights about entrepreneurship in the last decade is that a startup is not just a small version of a established business. Rather, a startup is an organization formed to search for a business model, rather than execute one.
In particular, this implies that startups should be designed to maximize learning by exploiting surprises. This is the exact opposite of a traditional business, which attempts to increase predictability by avoiding surprises.
To get the optimal structure, we need to be clear on:
Which things we need to learn (the problem)
How we are going to learn them (the process)
Who will own the learning (the people)
What will prove we have learned the right lessons (the product)
TBC 3: Trading Control for Authority
...every organization's health is driven by three flows:
Money (resources)
Power (actions)
Ideas (data)
Over time, as the organization matures, all three flows more closely aligned with each other and the structure of the organization. Just like the blood, muscles, and nerves of a human body.
But when building a platform, we have to reverse that process by giving up control over those flows...
TBC 2: From Platforms to Governance
In our first installment on Transforming the Bay with Christ (TBC), we talked about how platforms enable us to tackle problems and markets too big for any one entity to manage directly. Because of that, though, it is much harder to create a successful platform than it is to create a successful program. In this installment, we will talk about how to do that.
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