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
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 »
The data deluge
Next week I'm facilitating the 'Research Data Matters' workshop for The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. One of my oft collaborators at MoRST last week asked me whether I'd seen any infographics that represented the 'data deluge'. I've seen some excellent ones on the size of the Internet, and file storage volumes, but nothing of that nature, so I decided to make one. More »
What is the (e) in your eResearch?
First eMail, then eCommerce, eBusiness & eProcurement, eGovernment, eDating, and now eResearch. Does simply putting an ‘e’ in front of an existing practice make it somehow sexier, and more now? I headed along to the Wellington eResearch Symposium last week to find out. More »
The texture, sound and smell of the digital world - a tribute to @littlehigh
What I loved about Paul Reynolds was the way he brought texture and richness to the digital world. He had a unique way of connecting the beautiful, tactile, physical, and even musty nature of art galleries, museums, and libraries with the expression of knowledge in digital environments. He seemed to understand the innately human aspects of both, and bridge them in a way no one else could. He understood the relationship between content, people, and place in the physical world, and effortlessly applied that understanding to technology, the web, and social media. He did so in a way that was wry, amusing, and both pragmatic and visionary. He explained new things in ways that were easy to understand, often simultaneously with the excitement of a 7 year old boy, and the wisdom of a 70 year old man. More »