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RBP-EA: There's gonna be a revolution…

Posted on 25 May 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society — 1 Comment ↓

This is part of a series of posts that I’ll be doing about ‘The Really Big Picture‘ at a societal/economic level, in relation to enterprise-architecture. This post sets out some of the scope and scale of the changes that are…

RBP-EA: From 'Really Big Picture' into real-world practice

Posted on 22 May 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society — 5 Comments ↓

This continues the themes of the previous posts, ‘The Really Big Picture for enterprise-architecture‘ and RBP-EA: The dangers of business-centric ‘enterprise’-architecture. Much like strategy, enterprise-architecture is one of the few business-disciplines that explicitly focusses on the mid- to longer-term future. As…

RBP-EA: The dangers of business-centric 'enterprise'-architecture

Posted on 21 May 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society — No Comments ↓

This is in part a follow-on to ‘The Really Big Picture for enterprise-architecture‘. As a discipline, enterprise-architecture is still in the throes of a multi-year struggle against IT-centrism – in our context, the dangerous delusion that enterprise-scope IT-architecture somehow ‘is’…

RBPEA: A taste for value

Posted on 30 June 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — No Comments ↓

As enterprise-architecture expands outward (see video) to a much broader scope and scale (see video), we’ll need a different kind of anchor for the architecture itself: less on means such as IT or money, more on aims, ends and purpose. In short, a…

Enterprise-architecture – a near-futures report

Posted on 12 September 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Society — 2 Comments ↓

We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report…

On value-governance

Posted on 27 May 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society — No Comments ↓

What do I mean, when I talk about ‘value-governance’ in an enterprise-architecture sense? In Enterprise Canvas, what does that ‘Value Governance’ cell represent? What do its services actually do, for the service, the organisation and the overall enterprise? This one’s for…

Forrester’s ‘EA 2020’

Posted on 25 February 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 4 Comments ↓

Gettin’ there… the ‘big-name’ consultancies, yep, they are gettin’ there. Slowly… Nice example today was an auto-notification from Forrester about their new enterprise-architecture report, ‘EA 2020 – The Transformation Of EA In The Age Of The Customer‘. It’s written by a…

Four principles – 2: There are no rights

Posted on 4 February 2013 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — 6 Comments ↓

What rights do we need to design for in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the third in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules…

4713 days and counting…

Posted on 7 August 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Power and responsibility, Society — 2 Comments ↓

He slouched down the street, a scowl emblazoned on his face. The slogan on the grubby black T-shirt said it all: Days since I gave a sh*t: 4713 and counting… I’ll admit I got a bit annoyed about this –…

The architecture of a no-money economy

Posted on 19 September 2011 by

admin Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society — 3 Comments ↓

A couple of days ago I wrote an intentionally-controversial post on my Sidewise blog, saying that ‘The future of money is that it has no future‘. Was I being serious? Yes. Very serious: I really do mean it when I say…