Exformation Field – the subset of data generally thought to be explicitly discarded.
Exformation as a verb – the act of transforming industries by purposely expanding the venn diagram of information to include previously discarded data and meta-data also known as exformation.
Here’s what I’m thinking about for my new on-going thesis and dissertation for computer science, informatics and economics.
The Networked Economy - Metcalfe’s Law
The Economics of Networking
The Action behind the Transaction
The MetaData behind the Data
The Value of the Insight & Context vs. the act of Processing
The Democratization of the Tools of Finance
Financing the Tools of Democratization
Free Enterprise Unleashed
Modern Social Networking: More than "just friends" (FOAF and beyond)
Modern Money: Payment Acceptance & Remittance
Money is and always has been a "killer app" (more likely, the best "peacful app")
Payment is just half of the Equation.
Acceptance is key.
Modern Mobility: Wireless & The Anywhere Prosumer
Mobile Trends
Prosumerism Today
Mobile Freedom
Modern Identity: Quintuple Convergence
EVI, PHR and InfoCards, Oh My!
Modern Incentives: Inverting Loyalty & Rewards
These aren’t your daddy’s Airline Miles or Hotel Points.
The Traditional Loyalty Paradigm
Affinity vs. Loyalty: Your Reputation with Me vs. My Reputation with You.
Modern Reputation: Radicalizing Transparency
Free Enterprise, Free Information and the Freedom to Choose with whom to do business.
Addressable Funds and Payment Attribution
IP6, Externally addressable subaccounts and micropayments for the masses.
Information Theory - The Data Value Hierarchy
Data, Exformation/Information, Knowledge/Context, Wisdom/Insight
Transactional Data: Our I/O Problem
Information & Exformation
Exformation as Noun (Non-captured Data)
Exformation as Verb (in detail later)
Context & Knowledge
Wisdom & Insight
High-fidelity Exformation Fields
Payment tone: Value Exchange Criteria
Incentive Insight: Multi-party Loyalty
Purchase intent: Leveraging Search to Purchase
Reputational Awareness: Prosumer Profiles
Brokered Identity, Trust & Integrity
Anonymity, Demography and Loyalty Redefined
FOAF: Social Banking
Shared Cash Flow Management (CFM)
Shared Risk & Reward, Combinational Agoric Budgeting
Subscribable Personas
Never "lose" a customer again!
Extreme KYC
OfferTree: When goods and services companies compete, you win!
Exformation as Verb: The Exformation of Industry
Exformation Example #1: Healthcare, Providers, Pharma, Networks & Insurers
Exformation Example #2: Customer Value Management (CVM=CRM+Loyalty+Reputation+Transparency)
Exformation Example #3: Future Bank - Yes, there is still a need!
Exformation Example #4: Future Commerce - Globalization Realized
Exformation Example #5: Campus Collaboration - The Future of Education
Exformation Example #6: A smaller, gentler, little brother - Government as Required
‘Tis a funny thing, being cursed with Methodology Knowledge, Experience and Passion. As my favorite methodology joke goes: (Ok, so how many methodology jokes do YOU know?)
“Do you know the difference between a methodologist and a terrorist?”
“You can negotiate with a terrorist.”
At IBM, I was what was known as a Methodology Exponent. This means that I helped create, vett and consolidate our disparate methodologies into what eventually transformed from what was loving known as the Worldwide Integrated Solution Development and Delivery Methodologies (WISDDM, pronounced Wisdom) into the Global Services Method (GSM)
