Questions on belief
“What do you believe?” “How do you know that you believe? “How can you prove that you believe that?” What…? Okay, yes, I probably made a mistake, being so foolish as to publish a video in the Tetradian on Change series on …
Category: Knowledge
All aspects of business knowledge
The weight of the past
What’s the weight of the past? For me, right now, it’s about two tons. Literally. I moved back to Australia in mid-March of this year. Courtesy of the pandemic-lockdown, every part of my initial plans for the move were shredded, …
What is knowledge?
What is knowledge? And what is its relation with data and information – or wisdom, for that matter? The starting-point for this was a question on LinkedIn from Josef Miklos, over in the Czech Republic: I am struggling with the …
Where have all the good skills gone?
[to the tune of “Where have all the flowers gone?”] Where have all the good skills gone? Long time passing Where have all the good skills gone? Long time ago Where have all the good skills gone? Gone to robots …
Tagged with: automation, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, learning, responsibility, sense-making, skills
On skills: 10, 100, 1000, 10000 hours
10; 100; 1000; 10000. A lot of things those numbers could apply to, of course, but in this case they’re ballpark figures for the number of hours of learning-based practice that it takes to develop specific levels of skill. (We …
Change-mapping: Plan and Action
In the Change-mapping method, what exactly is Action? Doesn’t action happen everywhere? The short-answer to that second question is actually ‘Yes’ – action does indeed happen everywhere. In which case, you might ask, what’s the point of having Action as …
Building-blocks for a viable business-architecture
What’s the minimum that we need as a base for a viable business-architecture? That’s a shorter summary for a multi-part question recently sent to me by Chilean business-architect Richard Moira Lupin: What should a company have, what maturity, what capacity, what …
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Toolsets for enterprise-architecture – another try
What tools and toolsets do we need, to support our work in the architecture of the enterprise as a whole? The short and more cynical answer is “Not what we have right now”. To be blunt, maybe none of the …
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Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, metamodel, methodology, narrative knowledge, sense-making, toolset, toolsets
Documenting the Not-known
In our work on simplifying the ‘inventory’ of tools and techniques I’d developed for whole-enterprise architecture and the like, one of the challenges we keep hitting up against is how to capture ideas, information and insights, as they appear during …
Down the rabbit-hole with ‘evidence-based’
If we want to make something ‘evidence-based’, then what exactly is ‘evidence’? On the surface the answer might seem obvious – I mean, evidence is evidence, right? But in practice, as soon as we look a little closer, the evidence …
Tagged with: evidence, evidence-based, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, responsibility, sense-making