Data’s Hotel California: Open Systems vs. Walled Gardens
There are plenty of fibs and outright lies in business. You might know the “Three Great Lies” with number three being, “the check is in the mail.” We say the “Fourth Great Lie,” happens when customers say they have all the data we need in…
Lies, Damn Lies, and Covid Statistics
Writing about bad analytics in the age of Covid is easy; embarrassingly easy. Since Lone Star has published several assessments around the epidemic, we’ve had our share of problems. As 2021 comes to an end, it seems worth looking back over the last two years…
Opportunities and Problems with Digital Twins | Part Three: Barriers and Business Models
So far, this series has discussed the problems of confusion about different kinds of digital twins and other ways they generate value. This final installment considers a separate issue. Like many technology offerings, there are interesting relationships between business models to capture the value and…
