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Metamodel is IP. Keep it safe.
Just a thought. The metamodel presuppose the hard conceptual work done by the thinker in grappling with a domain, and is best kept to oneself. A friend [...]
The need for a meta model – footnote to Business Capabilities – part 2
in the previous post on the notion of business capabilities, I looked at what I called the property-likeness of a acapability – so that an object is [...]
Is the mind a Hypervisor ?
the notion of virtual machines has been around for almost 30 years. The first emulators in the mid 90’s and the first VMs in the late 90’s. The [...]
Bio-semiotics : Codes, messages and mediums
Ive been reading some interesting material on biosemiotics – codes of life Marcello Barbieri and Jesper Hoffmeyer which identifies numerous codes [...]
business capability – Part 2
previously I suggested that capability and colour have the same logical structure, in that there is : a property level ( level 2 ) a determinable level ( [...]
business capability – Part 1
Im involved in the deployment of a capability model that two collegues have constructed  for use in a strategic process. It is just exploratory at the [...]
exploring scripting to help develop conceptual models from a textual corpus
as i start to get the hang of this blogging thing, and of wordpress, my next aim is to begin cleaning up some scripts i have been working on – […]
walking
well i received a fitbit type device to count steps as part of a work charity thing – im in a team to walk 10000 steps per day. It has […]
short frequent entries
the last time I was maintaining a blog, it failed because I felt that all my entries had to be of a high quality. in fact, no one really reads […]
got ftp and MySQL working
making progress. I managed to create a new database, connect to it via workbench on my laptop and add tables and rows. also, setup incoming and outgoing [...]