“Complex systems require simplicity. Yet, simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain grand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.” So states Nicholas Nassim Taleb in Antifragile.

 

Many physicists have stated similar thoughts about developing theories and solutions to science problems.

 

Yet, I wade through many news releases regarding security or software or Industry 4.0 or digital transformation that seem to take the simple and make it complex. I’ve felt for 20 years that software marketers can’t afford to state what the product, er, solution, does in simple terms for fear that wouldn’t justify the price.

 

All of our software and automation and Internet of Things ideas should be able to be stated simply and should state the business problem that it is solving. Executives don’t care if you solved Fermat’s Last Theorem if you can’t explain how it solved a business problem they are facing.

 
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You can check out my podcasts here. Catch up on my latest blog posts and thinking here. Cybersecurity has been in the general news often this spring and summer. Experts have been expressing opinions, research, and solutions much of which I’ve reported. Check out also thoughts from ROKLive, Rockwell Automation’s software virtual conference. Other topics include analytics and data management and edge orchestration. Check it out. Feel free to add your thoughts or suggest areas of coverage that I might find interesting.

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Gary