Vision and mission
Thought I’d write up a reply to a query from Shawn Callahan at Anecdote, about vision and mission. Shawn wanted clarification on what vision is – particularly in relation to brand vision – and how it differs from mission. What …
Category: Futures
Strategic foresight, futures methodology and practice
Draft 2 of EA book
Another weekend gone, but the revised draft of the enterprise-architecture book is up on the Tetradian site here. (Warning again that it’s large: more than 2.8Mb in PDF form. Let me know if you need the .DOC instead.) Main changes …
Book-draft is complete
Rushing to get everything ready for the trip to Sydney this evening, but I have completed the first draft of the enterprise-architecture book. Working-title is “Real Enterprise-Architecture: Beyond IT to the whole enterprise“. You’ll find the PDF here – though …
The relationship economy, and more
One of the few online newsletters I subscribe to is that of Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and other great ideas – and this time he came up trumps, with an article called “Building a Relationship Economy” (not …
More on 'Vision, role, mission, goal'
Some considerable time ago I promised more on the ‘Vision, role, mission, goal’ framework, my basic model for an ‘audit-trail’ for business motivation. So yup, I’ve finally gotten Round To It: it’s now up on the Tetradian site as a …
TWoPS at first-hand
Been somewhat withdrawn over the past couple of weeks, struggling to deal with one of the more stupid consequences of TWoPS (That WOrst Possible System) – namely getting paid work, which I ‘must’ do in order to be able to …
More on TWPS
A few more comments on That Worst Possible System (TWPS), whilst I’m still bashing the ideas around in my head. It’s interesting to look at some of the other artefacts and distortions of TWPS, aka the ‘normal’ money-based (or more …
More on SCORE
As promised some time ago, I’ve now completed a Powerpoint on the SCORE strategy-assessment methodology – you’ll find the PDF file of the Notes view up on the Tetradian website at http://tetradian.com/download/intro-to-score.pdf . Comments, if you would? (And if you …
The worst possible system
Another idea that’s been brewing as part of Mythquake. Map out the stereotype life-cycle, as the time baseline of a graph: from teenager, to first leaving home, to getting together with a partner, having kids, kids start to go to …
Futures and futures
Linda asked for a quick summary of ‘futures’. There are two very different business meanings of ‘futures’: ‘futures’ as a category of financial-derivatives trading ‘futures’ as a strategic view To my mind, the former perhaps used to have some practical …