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InfoValue, at last ..?

Ah, finally, some depth shows up to have been developed in the field of infonomics. Very, very happy to see that; as you may recall from many previous posts of mine (and from before the very idea of posts, or blogging, or the Internet as such, did exist) I had an urge to find, or (help) develop, methodology in this direction. So there you have it, and there.

I’m happy for today. But will post much more on all sorts of bits and pieces that may spring to mind, in the near future. May even want to create a new category for this.
Anyone out there that already has more on the, say, more hardcore accounting side of this? Much needed!

And oh, of course:
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[Bridge, over as yet untroubled waters, Calatrava of course yes indeed, at Valencia]

(A category of her own)

By faking in all sorts of ways, she created a category of her own… the Yolanthie!
As in this, and this, and elsewhere…

But hey, that’s how innovation goes, right ..? Trial and error.
[In this case, creating a completely new fantasy category…]
Also ruthless vetting, more than ever, though. Not really the benign advisory type – that would take some maturity, apparently not present in the immediate vincinity of starlets nor with the haters; gonna hate, out of lack of any own initiative, innovation, or self-worth altogether.

And here’s what you were waiting for; a real one!
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[Smile, Baltimore style]

Finally, real responsibility

..it’s getting real. A CEO has to take personal responsibility for an incidental security miss.

So, after all the talk about ‘top management being accountable, and you can’t just delegate that’, we see that the buck indeed stops where it should. Or, well, it stops there, too; probably, down the line some others may receive a slight dent in their bonuses (up high) or get fired on the spot (lower down). But, for once, the blame doesn’t run downstream all too cleanly until it reaches the bottom.

Oh how wonderful it would be if, if this would become the standard. Then finally those in InfoSec and ITSec would get the appropriate (!) budgets…

Oh my! I forgot to mention Cyber …! Just sprinkle it around in the above piece, to make it hip and modern as if I understand everything new in the world – or it proves I don’t, par excellence…
#ditchcyber / #wegmetcyber you know.
So, here’s your picture:
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[Hi, Ludwig!]

Account your blessings, or not.

Accountants of the certifying kind are still searching for their purpose. In life but moreover, in business reality.
Which isn’t too strange. They exist only for a couple of centuries, so at the speed of thinking they do, now is about the right time to do a second round of thought about their role.

First, a picture to freshen the mind:
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[Memento for outdatedness..?]

To start off, accountants [from here, I presume them to refer to the external auditors of the annual financial statements] were involved in checking all detailed financial data as well as seeing these represented in a standardised form into the annual statements. These annual statements had not very, very much flexibility, (so / because) any statement’s line item had a quite limited interpretation space. Sort of XBRL avant la lettre, in practice.
But since, data representation standards have complexified so much that there is no ‘standard’ anymore; interpretations mushroomed. Which is why exactitude of the summaries in the annual figures isn’t anything important per se anymore, and the fuzzy representation of performance is.

Along came many more types of accountants, of auditors even. Though some may narrowmindedly think all ‘auditors’ are actually the external certifying accountant type, they are dead wrong.
Continue reading “Account your blessings, or not.”

Wired / Tired / Expired, May 2014 edition

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[Symbol of …, still in T or moving into E ..?]

So, here’s the May edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews:

WIRED TIRED EXPIRED
Small wine appellations (see below) Microbrews Quasi- but very failed hip beers from global brand breweries
For the discovery of them. See below Most are technically drinkable but no more than gimmicks in taste. Awww, they’re as hip as LOLcats!
French, Italian, Spanish (very) small appellations Eastern European wines New world wines
Côtes de Toul, for one. Various Savoie sub-appellations. Knowing your way around Italy’s appellation-per-village / -anthill landscape. The many (sub)regions in Spain. The better quality Luxembourg reds (and whites). Try them, and be begeistert! (Oh, German – still ever so tending to over-sweetness… jammie US/Aussie taste failure) The very few good ones, they keep for themselves. The easy currency inflow, they dump on us. [Sigh] Apart from a very few, still very boring, boorishly simple.
Teen Twitter Terror Threat Bugs like Heartbleed Snowden et al.
Because the panic. By one tweet. Out of …? What if (among) the others (there) are encoded similar ones..? Dude, that’s sooo 1980-2013 (give or take some years); self-referential. From the Eastern front, no news. (Unless one would count the many same messages and very, very long spun out aftermath. Tire to kill ..?
Back to the absolute multi of multimedia Game of Thrones Mad Men
Back to the explosion of formats to communicate through; i.e., not only social media but all forms blended, off-line, online, text, video, paper, F2F, just anything, mixed ad hoc. Frantically searching for the right format – per sound bite. Yeah, yeah, just kill eachother already. Might have stayed fun when it would have some actual history. The mehhh of series.
Home cooking Street food French. Or pure Thai.
Because, if (!) one can, this is best, in quality of ingredients and control to not have the bad ones of those (e.g., salt… light if any, not tons to extract flavour from bland wholesale stuff). Pure Markets, hipster cooking vans, et al. Watch out, the hoi polloi of wannabe classy but middle-aged mediocre-minded drones are picking up and overflowing the area with passive-agressive bitchiness..! There’s so much more specialised kitchens – that actually are purely themselves, not still simpled-over-to-fake(!)-narrowminded-average tastes.
Home garden vegetables Bio (-dynamic / organic) veggies Plain supermarket veggies
The purity – of pleasure in seeing them grow, in nurturing. Passive-aggressive B12-insufficients, couldn’t feed the tiniest part of the world population if they’d try to roll their methods out beyond their little kindergarten acre. Semi-purified water, supplemented with E-numbers to add flavour.
OK, one more for this month, on the tech side:
Software Defined everything Managed security services SIEM / IAM
Because abstraction is good for business; mixing less under-standing, less overview and more complexity and (hence) much error-proneness (if that is a word). If they weren’t managed already, move over to Little League / Internal or external, what’s the difference ..! (fundamentally) Process nay procedures infrastructure driven by erstwhile point solutions. Yeah, baby, fire up the klesydra!
And a final one, to throw it in here by lack of a better place
Google Now Siri Dragon
Going strong, and working Joked about often enough. May have started to work i.e., not too little anymore, but too late. Same, big time; desktop oriented hence mehhh.

OK, any suggestions for next month’s edition ..?

Who controls the Watsons…?

First, a picture for your viewing delight:
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[Seems chaotic, yet navigable]

Who controls the Watsons in your pocket, once they arrive ..?
Anoher one triggered by Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think: When not if Watson has morphed into a Software Defined Anything something small enough to fit on your mobile, just about everyone will use it in cyborg / centaur ways to augment oneself. This will require adaptation of the way one goes around in the world, and …
may create a dependence on the Machine, possibly a big one for those that had gained the most by this new ways.

But

  • Where will the database sit that hold all the info to be brute-force searched, in breath and depth ..?
    If it is local, then how are the inputs screened; are they, and by whom ..? Who would know anything about the stuff you/they miss out on ..? Homophilia (groupthink/narrowingmindedness) and its grave dangers.
    If it is somewhere remote, the control issues loom even larger. Yes, capacity-wise this may work much better. But the Central Scrutinizer (eternal thanks) may … will be the blue pills all around solultion …!
  • Even if primarily stored locally, who will have access to the images stored remotely for ‘backup purposes’ ..? Due to the enormous dependence that the PocketWatsons will create, backups are ‘more essential’ than ever, and by their nature must be kept at some distance. What a TLA wet dream would it be to lay their hands on yours…!

That’s only two questions that popped up already. There will be many more. And the answers …
Who will provide those, who will pick the best ones, who will decide what’s best ..!?

To Be Continued.

Maverisk / Étoiles du Nord