Unifying Business, Data, and Code

Chapter 15. Principles of Designing Intelligence

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

From the moment our ancestors first gazed upon the cosmic constellations shimmering in the night sky to now—the age of AI, where data scientists look at constellations of connected data points in vast graphs of information—humanity’s story is one of insatiable curiosity. The value of venturing past boundaries, from the known into the unknown and uncharted, lies in forging new pathways of understanding and new paradigms of thinking that enable us to better shape the reality we wish to create.

Congratulations, you have made it to the end of the unifying methodology for data strategy and data management. You might be asking, “What’s next?” The answer is that now that you, the data champion, have unified your organization or aspects of your organization’s data, you are ready to learn the universal principles that serve as the fundamental building blocks for designing systems—be they computational, organizational, or otherwise—that can be combined in ways that exhibit properties ascribed to intelligence itself.

Your Unifying Journey So Far

As you learned in this book, unifying views your organization from a zoomed-out perspective as a holistic entity made of connected networks, then zooms in on the most granular and fundamental unit, the concept.

Chapter 4 discussed concept-first design, which aims to remove ...