Awesome. In a world of defacto standards, it's so useful to have groups creating the equivalent of the new OSI to stop all that TCP/IP nonsense. I suppose it keeps them employed. Next time, try building an industry first ->
X : OSI?
Me : In the early days of the intenet, Europe standards groups tried to ban TCP/IP (the protocol that creates the internet that powers your web) in favour of their own OSI 7 layer standard. They lost, the defacto won, you have the inernet which enabled the web.
X : I thought TCP/IP was OSI compliant.
Me : After being battered to a pulp by TCP/IP, the OSI standard groups then refined OSI to claim that TCP/IP was OSI compliant i.e. they did the usual of switching sides and then claiming they were on the winning side all along.
Never underestimate the ability of standard groups, policy wonks, their lawyers and the supporting industries they form to pervert reality in order to claim that their thing is worthwhile, a success, being adopted and everyone benefits etc ... see GDPR.
X : Isn't GDPR a success?
Me : Depends upon who you talk to and how they define success.
X : And?
Me : My thoughts? Well, if the intention was to consolidate power into fewer dominant web giants, create new barriers to entry and new bureacracies then it has been wonderful.
X : Not enthusiastic about the EC standards effort then?
Me : About as enthusiastic as the EC cloud standards effort that were going to change the world by being "anyone but Amazon". The EC fiddles at digital sovereignty but frankly it hasn't a clue - swardley.medium.com/digital-sovere…
The problem is the same one I found in the office of the CIO in US Gov. They often tried to policy their way to a future rather than trying to build the example and the industry which they can help guide. One great thing about GDS in the UK is it lead by example.
It's similar with China where the Gov gets directly involved in building, nurturing and guiding industry. I suppose it's the distinction between an Engineer vs Lawyer mindset in Government and what mindset dominates.
So, no ... I'm not enthusiastic with these EC standards. I look at it as jobs for a certain crowd, dubious if not negative impacts, poor track record and huge wastes of resources.
X : What do you prefer?
Me : Directed investment. encouraging development of industry. targetted focus of resources (ideally map the space) and let defacto's form. At that point you can use dejeure.
X : Are the EC doing this?
Me : I know a few in the EC who think like this ...
... but I''m not aware they are playing such games. Maybe somewhere in smart cities etc but that'll be @jacquitaylorfb influence.
X : What do you to think to this?
Me : A focus on industrialising components, possible use of open approaches, shifting today's legacy ... seems reasonable. Where's it from?
X : EC industrial technology roadmap, May 2021.
Me : Oh ... serious ...
X : Yep. ec.europa.eu/newsroom/repos…
Me : Hmmm ... I suppose you're going to make me eat my words?
X : Yep. I've been waiting for this, for a long long time.
Me : Ditto.
X : You've gone quiet?
Me : Yes. I never expected to see the EC start considering the landscape and upping its situational awareness. That could turn out to be quite challenging for the UK. This could herald a new level in nation state competition. Hmmm ... lots to ponder.
X : In regards to digital sovereignty ...
Me : ... forget what I said. If the EC have started mapping then this potentially changes everything.
X : The roadmap is right?
Me : It's irrelevant. What matters is the map is a vehicle for communication, challenge and learning ...
... beforehand, you could pretty much rely on people not learning or challenging effectively in competitive spaces. This is quite a big deal, I am surprised.
X : Why trouble?
Me : Have you even seen two competitive groups face each other, one with more advanced tech but little or no situational awareness whilst the other has advanced situational awareness?
X : And?
Me : It's not pretty. It's why situational awareness is paramount.
Me : Problem only gets worse over time especially if one group is using the landscape to learn from ... China and Deng Xiaoping all over again.
X : Does China use your maps?
Me : No. Well, I'm not aware but they have some equivalent mental model. Hit rates too high not to.
X : I'm not convinced by the EC Industrial roadmap even if they do use a map.
Me : Using a map doesn't make something right. It provides an opportunity to challenge assumptions (pre-mortem) and to learn by taking actions and then re-visiting the map (post mortem) ...
It's that potential to learn that should raise eyebrows. Usually, we write a business case, spend a truck load of money and convince ourselves we will magically learn any lessons of failure before repeating the same mistakes all over again ... outsource all, agile everywhere etc.

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12 May
X : If leadership is the brain of the body, then ...
Me : What are you talking about?
X : The organisation as the body.
Me : Ok, you understand the body is a luxury bus for the microbiome and the brain spends time deluding us into believing we make rational choices post event?
X : What are you saying?
Me : If you're using the body and brain as a metaphor then direction is set in the gut and leadership spends a lot of its time convincing itself that the choices it made mattered? Is that the metaphor you're after?
X : No.
Me : Well? What then?
X : Trying to explain the importance of leadership.
Me : Tricky one.
X : Why?
Me : Most of it is an artificial and self reinforcing construct of the social systems that we've created in the past.
X : What does that mean?
Me : Its current form is probably not necessary. A relic.
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X : Thoughts on the Queen's speech?
Me : It was fine? What are you after?
X : Any alarm bells?
Me : Oh. There are some ... can we talk about the good first?
X : Prefer the alarm bells.
Me : Hmmm ... ok ...
1) "Patients will receive more tailored and preventative care" ... this could be a step towards patient budgets, a fast track way to privatise healthcare. Keep an eye on the legislation around this, especially ideas on promoting patient choice.
2) "legislation to establish an advanced research agency" ... the moonshot approach of DARPA. We tried that with track and trace. Awareness of context is really important for the type of investments and so don't expect much here, UK isn't playing with China's skill.
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X : Have you come across PESTLE?
Me : Yes.
X : And?
Me : Do you remember my map vs SWOT and what would you use to learn, to challenge and to communicate? Image
X : Yes.
Me : Well, PESTLE is a more detailed examination of opportunities and threats into various categories. In terms of situational awareness, it's even more removed than SWOTs.
X : Not a fan?
Me : They are nice categories to think about, nothing more.
X : Not useful for strategy?
Me : They are nice categories for talking about. If you're building strategy then you'll need to map and apply thought. PESTLE like SWOT is a useful aid to remind you to consider these things, same with business model canvas.
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X : My apologies.
Me : What for?
X : Back in 2012 when you said Bitcoin would grow from $5 to be over $50k per coin, I said you were mad.
Me : No problem. You did read what I wrote in 2013 - blog.gardeviance.org/2013/11/a-spoi…
X : OMG, $5M per coin, that's mad.
Me : You're welcome.
X : So, how much have you got invested in bitcoin?
Me : Nothing. I won't invest in something that I consider harmful to society.
X : You're kidding? That could be like hundred of millions?
Me : What would I do with hundreds of millions? I'd rather have a functioning society.
X : I don't get it ... you know this will grow, you could invest but you choose not to? Are you insanely wealthy?
Me : No but I don't need much to be happy. Helping to destroy society in order to earn a pile of money wouldn't make me happy. So, I choose not to.
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X : Your phases of doctrine, are they like a maturity model?
Me : No. The doctrine is just a collection of principles (those universally useful patterns). The principles are ways of thinking i.e. "do we think about this". It's about questionining what we do.
X : Why phases then?
Me : You can map the principles and some are built on others. Hence I've organised them into phases.
X : Is there a phase V?
Me : I suspect so.
X : Any hints?
Me : Phase V? Not really but I can point you in a direction of where it might be heading.
X : Which is?
Me : Leaderless organisations.
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@Jill4Hartlepool ... it is "not possible to blame Jeremy Corbyn for this result. Labour won the seat twice under his leadership" ... and the ... "strategy of isolating the left and replacing meaningful policy with empty buzzwords has comprehensively failed" ... says it all.
I do hope that Starmer does the honourable thing. It's about time we had a pro-brexit leader with strong roots in local issues that people could rally around ... someone like @SarahChampionMP
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