Happy Spring From Thought Layer! In anticipation and celebration of the upcoming warm weather we are bringing Cocktail Engineering back to our blog! You may have recalled our first cocktail engineering exercise where we engineered the Classic Manhattan recipe. Our Cocktail Engineering practice follows aspects of our Business Engineering methodology, including the use of formal Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN) process models to document our favorite cocktail re

Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning are all hot topics these days. Yet most of us become overwhelmed, don’t truly have a grasp of what it all means or how to use it. Big data is incredibly useful only when handled properly and can provide huge value for an organization long-term when structured in a way that makes it reusable. There are a few key elements that are often overlooked when thinking in terms of big data. The first is a lack of discipline or ap