My Journey to Digital Intelligence

Like many of you, I am passionate about intelligence. More than anything else, as a personal interest, intelligence is a thrilling and uplifting subject for me. Strangely enough, I am attracted to intelligent people, animals, and machines. It became such an obsession that I couldn’t hold my burning thoughts to myself anymore and wanted to share them with my readers, hoping that this constructive madness can add some value to others in this journey.

My cravings to understand human and machine intelligence started in earlier years of my tertiary studies in informatics and intensified with my doctoral studies in cognitive science which covered both natural and artificial intelligence. I am still obsessed with this fascinating topic hence would like to reach out to a broader audience to further extend it.

Extending human intelligence using technology intelligence can be a game-changer. Therefore, I continued my research in the area and chose a profession to deal with both human and machine intelligence in a broader sense and pursued it in an integrated context in personal and professional life.

Our brains love structures and patterns. This notion motivated me to be a technologist and particularly an enterprise architect dealing with people, technology, process, tools and integration of heterogeneous systems. These engagements required a considerable amount of integrated intelligence and mental stimulation to achieve successful outcomes in business and commercial settings.

Like the universe itself, then out of nowhere, digital intelligence came into the picture to extend my intelligence to a different perspective. With this serendipitous awareness, I keep swimming in the digital ocean daily and find it quite refreshing even though it may be risky and harmful for my health at times; but I love it. Now you may ask it rightly, where is the intelligence in this paradox.

This extended perspective to the digital arena with passion helped me to deal with complex and inevitable change. Embracing and adapting to rapid change made me a more flexible and nimbler person in life. Dealing with digital matters day to day expanded my horizons and enabled me to engage in fascinating intellectual activities at global settings.

Large organisations that I work for are substantially challenged with rapid change in technology and increasing demands of consumers in this digital era. Every large organisation that I served had some digital transformation and modernisation programs to some extent at the enterprise level. These organisations needed passionate leaders to transform them. Admittedly, I was in the right places in the right times.

Digital technologies in enterprises have multiple dimensions spanning to many domains. These domains are tightly interrelated; hence, a minor change in one domain can reflect in many others. Dealing with these interconnected domains and their challenging components require substantial digital intelligence.

In my recent book titled "Digital Intelligence", I attempted to explain these challenges in the most straightforward format methodically and provide insights based on practical architectural thinking approach to deal with them effectively. Some of the points may sound trivial or boring from outside, but each point I raised can have critical implications and make a significant impact on the success or failure of the digital endeavours especially when looked at in a granular level. How about your digital journey?