Seradigm is a niche consultancy specialising in strategy. Areas of focus include information management, information systems, e-Government, open data, and facilitation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
In this site you can learn about Seradigm’s services, the company’s background and beliefs, and our clients and case studies. There’s also a research section containing new ideas, concepts and thinking. For further information please contact us.
Recent thoughts
Christchurch 2.0
To build Christchurch 2.0, the legacy systems of the past, on computers, in organisations, and in people's brains will not be adequate for the task. We have to upgrade. At the TEDxEQChch event today, 3 months after the devastating earthquake in Christhchurch, Bjarke Ingels, an architect from Denmark, sent us a message encouraging us to build 'Christchurch 2.0'. His architecture is based on thinking in new and very different ways. More »
Data-intensive science
The reuse and management of research data is becoming increasingly important. Data-intensive science represents a transition from traditional hypothesis and experimentation, to identifying patterns, and undertaking modelling and simulation using increasingly massive volumes of data collected by thousands of researchers the world over. This means more breakthroughs across research discipline boundaries, and more bang for the research buck. More »
The four noble truths of open data
In October this year Chris McDowall wrote a post called The Zen of Open Data. This got me thinking, somewhat quizzically, about the relationship between Zen thinking and 'open' thinking. In commenting on the post Chris and I came up with the somewhat tongue in cheek 'Four Noble Truths of Open Data'. So, apart from a hilarious pun on the word 'attachment', what am I on about here? What does Zen thinking have in common with 'open thinking'? More »
Making sense of data management 'landscapes'
There are some fantastic developments in visualising data. This excites me enormously. It is, however, the domain of people who are cleverer than I (or at least much more adept at programming and using databases and analytics tools). One of my major areas of work is on understanding and improving the whole of sector 'landscape' of data/information management in the environment sector, with a particular focus on information systems for biodiversity. Recently the Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information Systems Programme (TFBIS) asked me to help determine where the gaps were in the biodiversity information systems 'landscape' so I made a diagram to visualise this. More »