Model-First Enterprise

Model-first enterprises will unlock the true potential of the new age of AI, cloud, robotics and quantum computing. Until then, we will have Adam Savage’s Spot rickshaw carriages.

The true potential of the new age of AI, cloud, robotics, and quantum computing will be unlocked by model-first enterprises.

Since clay tablets, the architecture of managing information hasn’t changed much.

Typewriters were replaced by PCs.

Paper drawings became .cad files.

Letters became emails.

Paper became .doc, .ppt, .xlsx

Physical binders became digital folders.

Paper logs became databases.

And so on…

Despite all the technological progress, the discontinuous radical change didn’t occur due to three traps.

First is the digitization trap. For example, a paperless factory is where paper is replaced with digital documents. But still, problems arise from information siloed in documents.

The second trap is about focusing too much on the symptom. Whether digital or paper, documents slow down organizations. The symptoms of documents lead to model-based engineering. However, bringing the model-based approach after the mess of siloed documents adds to overall complexity and cost, and models hardly become the leading source but only become the stuff that needs respect, stewardship, and funding.

The third trap is focusing too much on data. Data is the exhaust of reality. It is after the fact. Therefore, making models out of data is inherently a reactive approach regardless of the type of the model. We need deductive, future-facing, and programmable abstractions of the enterprise.

All in all, the model-first enterprise will be a true step change and a disruption at the same time.

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© Saip Eren Yilmaz, 2023