I am an engineer and academic holding a PhD in industrial engineering. My career in industry centres on technology strategy, while my academic research focuses on systems and management. I am neither socialist nor capitalist; I only aim to be smart.
The paradox, stated properly Enterprise architecture has a well-known origin problem. It is a business management discipline built largely by technologists. It emerged from industrial engineering, computer-integrated manufacturing and software design rather than from management science or organisational sociology, and it inherited the assumptions of those fields: that
1. The Claim and What Would Support It The premise usually offered for Africa’s digital economy is a chain of causation: infrastructure buildout enables ventures to scale, scaled ventures attract capital, capital deepens ecosystems, and unicorns emerge at the end of the sequence. Each link is plausible. Taken together
1. Framing the Question I recently submitted a research article to a leading journal for peer review. One of the major concerns raised by the reviewers related to my decision to frame the study within the context of Industry 4.0. In their view, Industry 4.0 has become somewhat
1. The Historical Pivot: Why Socialism Attached Itself to Labor Socialism’s historical alignment with the industrial working class reflected the material conditions of the First Industrial Revolution rather than an arbitrary ideological choice. Between roughly 1750 and 1850, the shift from agriculture and artisanal craft to mechanized factory production