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Articles by Michael Franklin
Why Speed-To-Insight Is Redefining Mega-Infrastructure Projects
By Mike Franklin, Chief Information Officer, BGE, Inc. Two hundred feet below downtown Austin’s streets, engineers made a decision that transformed one of the state’s most ambitious drainage projects. Capital Express (CapEx), part of the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) $4.5 billion reconstruction of Interstate 35 (I-35), shows what can happen when architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms commit to digital transformation.
In grief, ‘the way out is in’
“Escape” Nathan Coppedge I stopped calling things each other long before I knew I’d found a way between the walls where I could always go— where I could always go to sing to the remnants and the blooms sing of where and how I’d been and would a day return— moments where shadows grow along each lonely thing. Sometimes, I search frantically for the escape, the proverbial exit door, from whatever it may be that…
Meeting in the commons is common sense
In North Beach’s Caffe Trieste, the whir and wisp of the steamed milk and clanking of the cups on saucers is overpowered by the deafening screams of hundreds of people. They have consumed the entire street, and despite the futile honking of car after car attempting to pass, the people are unmoved. An immovable feast of fanatics! It’s neither a protest nor a sanctioned gathering, just people watching a soccer match on a television in the middle of a street at 7:00 am. Totally normal.
How to Manage Enterprise Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI
Cyber risk is accelerating and the nature of the threat is evolving. Recent developments in frontier AI models are beginning to increase the speed and scale of cyber-attacks, reinforcing what many organizations are already experiencing: incidents are becoming harder to predict, faster to unfold and more complex to manage. At the same time, many organizations still manage cyber risk across fragmented tools, spreadsheets, and disconnected processes.
Courage comes from something deep within us
Of all the words a poet could choose, Mary Oliver chose one word to emblazon her typewriter. In large, green, bold print, it simply read: COURAGE. The thing about words, they are made of words. You cannot define a word using the word itself; this is a rule that someone a long time ago came up with, I am not sure who (or whom?), but it is a rule I can get behind. At the heart of the rule of definition lies something more profound than a simple edict.
Asset Intelligence: The Infrastructure Revolution Coming In 2026
Communities everywhere are experiencing unprecedented change. Population booms, commercial and residential expansion and rising energy demands are reshaping the built environment. And the volume and velocity of technological advancement underpinning this transformation are unlike anything businesses have seen before. For traditional industries forged by concrete, steel and decades-old processes, this is creating both urgency and opportunity.
Embracing contradictions: How Walt Whitman reminds us of our vastness
Hey, friend. ‘Listener up there’, if you will. Got a minute? In our current era, I am well aware of the value of that small sliver of our day. Today, a minute can account for dozens of headlines, two or three tailor-made ads, and at least one solid dopamine hit as we scroll our way through any possible bit of ‘free time’ we may find ourselves in. A minute is no small ask. I should start with a brief introduction; I am Michael.
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