design for a subjective situationism, including conceptual grounds of business information modeling
Pieter Wisse
This treatise emphatically puts forward the hypothesis that every sign is a request for compliance. Then, of course, it is odd that a separate section titled About the author is included. For does not that very hypothesis imply that everything I have ‘sign’ed to constitute this text and figures is already very much about myself? When you agree, please read the section title, above, as More about myself.
I (1952) am the founder and president of Information Dynamics bv (Voorburg, the Netherlands), an independent company involved in research & development of complex information systems. Professionally I act as a consultant to organizations in both the public and private sector.
Through prototypes developed with its proprietary tool KnitbITs®, Information Dynamics assists principals to gain awareness of systemic changes – and strategic advantages – that might result from applying the so-called metapattern approach to conceptual information modeling. My book Metapattern: context and time in information models (Addison-Wesley, 2001) is mainly oriented at practitioners. This treatise digs beyond the metapattern’s practical applications to explain its theoretical grounds. My earlier publications, in Dutch, range from books to articles and monthly columns.
I studied mathematics and information management at the Department of Mathematics of Delft University of Technology. Before starting Information Dynamics in 1986 I was an employee at a variety of organizations including Smit International Ocean Towage & Salvage, Asian Development Bank, Royal Philips Electronics, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Netherlands).
See also www.informationdynamics.nl/pwisse.
2002, web edition 2005 © Pieter Wisse