Articles
16 articles, 2019–2026. Everything previously on limmatreframe.com and LinkedIn, in one place.
Data, AI & organisations
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Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Arc-Enabled SQL Server Estate
I spent some time lately thinking about how to properly monitor and mid- to long-term optimize a larger enterprise SQL estate - the following is a condensation of the research done on the…
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Der 5-Prozent-Filter: Wo im Unternehmen KI-Investment wirklich zählt
Vor knapp zwei Jahren durfte ich an einer Ausgabe der AI Summer School von Microsoft mitwirken und dort einen Impuls dazu setzen, wo im Unternehmen KI-Anwendungsfälle keine, ein bisschen…
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Slaying Dragons with AI
40 people, 4 working prototypes, and how to be the next one!
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Establishing a Data Mesh in a Fractal Enterprise: Ensuring Data Quality and establishing Data Contracts
If your company’s “fractal” structure – with many semi-autonomous business units – demands a careful balance between local autonomy and central standards, a Data Mesh architecture is…
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Azure’s Model Router: Smarter AI, Lower Costs for Your Business
Businesses can now reduce their AI costs without sacrificing quality. Microsoft’s new Model Router (currently in preview) is an Azure OpenAI Service feature that acts like an intelligent…
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Azure Databricks and Azure AI Foundry Integration announced at Build 2025
At Microsoft Build 2025, a new integration between Azure Databricks and Azure AI Foundry (now Microsoft Foundry) was announced. Azure Databricks is a unified analytics platform optimised…
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Integration of Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry – What, Why, and Who Benefits
The integration, in public preview, of Microsoft Fabric with Azure AI Foundry (now Microsoft Foundry) brings enterprise analytics and generative AI together, answering the key question:…
Earlier articles
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On the value and limits of borders
The central question of this essay was to me: Why will binary systems always only be decidable or complete but never completely decidable? And: What does that mean for me?
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Getting unstuck, why goal setting does and doesn’t work
Are you stuck? Because you cannot even sort where to start with all the things piling up in your backlog? Or because you are not even sure what shall happen? I came across a white paper and…
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Remote Collaboration – A framework or tool is nothing if the people behind it don’t benefit from it.
I had the pleasure to meet Rakesh Kasturi, to address some questions that came up on LinkedIn. Centered around remote collaboration, we had the chance to address how to bring people…
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Heroes, fools and design thinkers meet outside the box
Horos (ancient Greek ὅρος) describes the border, the boundary stone. The human frisson of crossing such a border is stylized in modern horror films. In the movies it is opened up for…
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Why does IKEA sell hot-dogs?
Have you ever wondered, why they offer hotdogs at the end of an IKEA-trip? The answer is: If they wouldn’t, you would leave the store directly after the emotional all-time-low-moment of the…
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What is the core of a persona?
A persona is the personified representation of a user or client group. Within design thinking this persona will be centered around coherent need-statements. The persona as method has…
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Here is a real-life business challenge
If you were to help a small "people’s knowledge center" on the islands of the Ganges delta to reimagine their business-model: What would be your suggestion? Put down your ideas in the…
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How to avoid Design Thinking B.S.
About a year back, the U.S. Department of Defense published their guide for detecting Agile BS. Within their guide they included a graphic I thought was so inspiring that I re-created it:
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Grenzen erreichen. Grenzen überwinden.
Horos (altgr. ὅρος) bezeichnet die Grenze, den Grenzstein. Der menschliche Frisson, eine solche zu überschreiten wird in der Moderne in Horrorfilmen stilisiert, gezielt erlebbar gemacht. Wo…