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Tools and metatools

Posted on 25 January 2015 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

Meta-this-that-and-the-other – metamodels, metaframeworks, metamethodology, metatheory, even metatools? What is all this stuff about ‘meta-‘? And what is ‘meta-’, anyway? One answer is that it’s about a kind of recursion that we often need in our work, in which something is applied to…

Tagged with: chaos, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, meta-methodology, metaframework, metamodel, metatools, SCAN, toolsets
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Platform, toolset and tool

Posted on 16 January 2015 by Tom G — 4 Comments ↓

With all of this exploration on new toolsets for enterprise-architecture and the like, what exactly are we talking about here? Is the aim to create some kind of ‘super-tool’ or toolset that will do absolutely everything, all in one go –…

Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatools, modelling, peter bakker, sense-making, stuart boardman, toolsets
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Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting the joins

Posted on 16 January 2015 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

What is enterprise-architecture, anyway? What’s it all about? Where does it add value to the enterprise? Kinda important questions for enterprise-architects, it would seem… Given that, then it seems it might be worthwhile to leverage some of those recent posts…

Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatools, modelling, sense-making, toolsets
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Declaring the assumptions

Posted on 15 January 2015 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

Moving onward with this exploration of how I’m reframing the way I work, a key part is around identifying the constraints of that work: where and how the tools work, and – perhaps even more important – being clear about…

Tagged with: complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, meta-methodology, metaframework, metamodel, taxonomy, terminology
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And more on toolsets for EA

Posted on 14 January 2015 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

Delighted to see that the past couple of posts on toolsets for enterprise-architecture and suchlike have stirred-up quite a bit of interest. So let’s keep going, and see if we can make this happen for real. One thing that definitely…

Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatools, modelling, sense-making, toolsets
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More notes on toolsets for EA

Posted on 12 January 2015 by Tom G — 15 Comments ↓

Various notes following on from my recent post ‘New toolsets for enterprise-architecture‘. Most of this is about some great interactions on the ‘EA-toolset’ themes with Phil Beauvoir (@ArchiToolkit), Peter Bakker (@mapbakery) and Gene Hughson (@GeneHughson), and also, if somewhat peripherally,…

Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatools, modelling, sense-making, toolsets
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Pinball-wizard

Posted on 8 January 2015 by Tom G — 3 Comments ↓

Chatting with a colleague the other day about where I’d gotten to so far with my explorations on new toolsets on enterprise-architecture. I’d been talking on what I saw about what it needed to do overall; then a bit about…

Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatools, modelling, sense-making, toolsets
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New toolsets for enterprise-architecture

Posted on 5 January 2015 by Tom G — 10 Comments ↓

(There are several posts queuing up for publication here about this shift in direction towards ‘maker of tools for change‘, but this one is a bit more urgent to support a key conversation that’s happening right now. The other posts…

Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatools, modelling, sense-making, toolsets
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Reframing the way I work

Posted on 1 January 2015 by Tom G — 8 Comments ↓

It’s time to make an end to the arguments that have plagued my professional-life and more for at least the past decade. And the simplest way to do that – to make that ending possible – is to reframe what…

Tagged with: anarchist, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, meta-methodology, metaframework, metamodel
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An end to the arguments

Posted on 31 December 2014 by Tom G — 4 Comments ↓

It’s sometimes said that the real collective-noun for architects is an argument – ‘an argument of architects’. We see that often enough on LinkedIn, to be sure… Yet we’ve also seen it way too often on these pages here, or in…