
This column deals with some aspects of change management processes
experienced almost in any industry impacted by the digital revolution: how to
select, create, gather, manage, interpret, share data and information either
because of internal and usually incremental scope - such learning, educational and
re-engineering processes - or because of external forces, like mergers and
acquisitions, restructuring goals, new regulations or disruptive technologies.
The title - I Changed My Mind Reviewing Everything - is a tribute
to authors and scientists from different disciplinary fields that have illuminated
my understanding of intentional change and decision making processes during the
last thirty years, explaining how we think - or how we think about the way we
think. The logo is a bit of a divertissement, from the latin
divertere that means turn in separate ways.
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How to cite this column?
icm2re [I Changed my Mind Reviewing Everything ISSN 2059-688X (Online)]. By
Brunella Longo.
Full-text accessible at http://www.icm2re.com/
- 6.12 | December 2017: If this is a landlord
About public consultations and the home buying and selling process in 21st
Century Britain
[...] If the property market has to be functional to people
needs, rights and interests, then landlords and tenants should not be used like
checkers in a legal casino [...]
- 6.11 | November 2017: There is no fire brigade for the
Internet!
About the need for a DIY approach to cyber-security
[...] there is always a big picture in your own context that
does not necessarily work for others: you should take it into account if you aim
at a better understanding of the security risks and the wider context impacting
your own internet sphere and infrastructure. [...]
- 6.10 | October 2017: The map is not the territory,
or... is it?
About the long and winding road of Web Accessibility
[...] I hope the example shows the extreme difficulties that
lie beneath the cognitive accessibility roadmap, full of abstract and subtle
aspects of structure and information design together with other more technical,
organisational, socio-economic and political potholes, and ethical traps
[...]
- 6.9 | September 2017: How to make a Top Ten
Turning information into communications success
[...] we all can act in a certain network as relay stations,
replicating what we have found or what we have been given as the best possible
canned answer to a frequent or recurrent question, adding our ideas and
elaborations or obtaining new combinations [...]
- 6.8 | August 2017: I am not the lady next to
me
About the challenges of datafication
[...] the distinction between one data unit and its possible
copies, instances, manifestations etc. etc. ensures that inference rules do not
go out of control in any possible automated process, service or system while
designing new applications or writing new machine learning algorithms - but it
also true the distinction is important to prevent we apply laws and regulations
without thinking, in a pretty ticking the boxes
mode that is compliance in nominal terms only [...]
- 6.7 | July 2017: The printers' job
Every little helps with assured computing
[...] The "wizards" in Microsoft operating systems have
created expectations of rapidity and precision that are totally inconsistent with
their actual function and functioning [...]
- 6.6 | June 2017: Otzi the iceman and the secrets of
rankings
About the credibility of search engines' results
[...] we still do not have devised and implemented controls
to measure the reliability and the credibility of what we find online in standard
ways, that is the true point of the whole fake
news debate: how both humans and algorithms should approach quality
assessment of information is still a matter of art and not science
- 6.5 | May 2017: Patient education and the Little Shop
of Horrors
About healthy choices in a data cacophony
[...] If I am seriously concerned about something, and I find
the online advice too much abundant and confusing I usually end up borrowing a
book at my local library just to reassure myself I am not playing any little
citizen science game with my own health and I have understood some basic concepts
right. [...]
- 6.4 | April 2017: Decluttering machine learning through
accuracy
About changing perceptions and achieving global consensus on data
quality
[...] Where does the accuracy issue stand within professional
bodies of knowledge, best practices, guidelines inspired by the SFIA framework or
within computer science or engineering curricula all over the world? At global or
industry level we still have to cross the Rubicon and recognise that accuracy and
quality are two different things. Let's add accuracy as a core
competence for our information age, together with autonomy, business skills,
influence, complexity. [...]
- 6.3 | March 2017: Every journey matters: opportunism
and consumer rights in swarm intelligence
About design, integration and standards for AI
[...] In this article I consider some possible basic
initiatives that both practitioners and researchers could undertake to prepare
themselves while waiting for the P7000 standard, and independently from both
other standards (such as the SFIA framework I will talk about in the next icm2re
issue) and their formal educational background, in order to achieve this basic
goal. [...]
- 6.2 | February 2017: No bit for blame: the OxCheek and
SmartAss story
About contractual terms and risks of algorithmic extortions
[...] we built up the first layer of a common culture of
working together, thanks and through automated operations. At the centre
of the SmartAss system there was an aggressive and exceptionally efficient new
way to automate inventory management and stock rotation but
OxCheek people did not possibly need all that perfection
[...]
- 6.1 | January 2017: Save the Safest.
Sonia's discoveries on data falsification
A process engineering case study
[...] This is an article about an
underestimated and often, when rarely acknowledged, understated problem in
information and data management that I believe is pivotal for change across
different industries and sectors: how to save the identity of professionals from
data falsification - in this instance the identity of gas safety engineers
[...]