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Big-data, big-information, big-knowledge

Posted on 4 March 2014 by Tom G — 3 Comments ↓

For all the hype around big-data at present, is that all that we really need? I have my doubts… Let’s take the classic ‘DIKW stack’: data, information, knowledge, wisdom. And then realise that it’s not a stack – it’s more like a…

Tagged with: big-data, Business, Enterprise architecture, IT-centrism, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge

Healthcare and information-flow

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

If we seek to create ‘boundaryless information flow’ in a healthcare context, where is the centre around which that information revolves? And in a healthcare context – or others, for that matter – just how ‘boundaryless’ can, or should, information-flow ever…

Tagged with: Enterprise architecture, healthcare, information, Knowledge, Open Group
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge

The importance of ‘also’

Posted on 16 December 2013 by Tom G — 4 Comments ↓

“Every business is an information business.” That was the first line of an infographic I saw this morning. And yep, no doubt about it: every business is indeed an information business. But there’s a rather important word that’s missing there: also.…

Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, IT-centrism, taxonomy
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge

Podcasts and videocasts – any requests?

Posted on 13 December 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

Just a quick question – or request for priorities, perhaps. I’m at last getting my act together on doing podcasts and videocasts around my existing and future materials. The podcasts will probably be two to five minutes long, on any appropriate…

Tagged with: business architecture, conference, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, podcast, slidedeck, social media, videocast
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider

Starting-friction

Posted on 11 December 2013 by Tom G — 15 Comments ↓

Great idea! Let’s get started! Uh… How do we get started? Kind of ‘There’s a hole in my bucket‘, often – everything depends on everything else, so there’s no clear place to start. But since everything does depend on everything else, it’d…

Tagged with: change, change management, decision-making, enterprise, responsibility, Scribbles / writing
Posted in Business, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing

A kind of manifesto (short version)

Posted on 2 December 2013 by Tom G — 3 Comments ↓

Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? As is perhaps too usual in my writing, the full-length version of the ‘manifesto’ ended up, uh, kinda long……

Tagged with: Business, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, strategy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society

A kind of manifesto

Posted on 2 December 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… So, what next? Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? At the least, time for a fairly major paradigm-change in how we view the…

EA: past and future, money and story

Posted on 31 October 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

One more comment on the ‘certification for enterprise-architecture’ farrago, and then I’d better move on. The other day I spotted a one-liner from ‘gamechanger‘ Mike Bonifer that I can only describe as quietly brilliant – and painfully pertinent to this…

Tagged with: Business, certification, Enterprise architecture, Futures, narrative, paradigm, story, systems, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, The Outsider

And more on EA certification…

Posted on 30 October 2013 by Tom G — 8 Comments ↓

What is the profession of enterprise-architecture? And what should we do about certification, to define and protect that profession? Yeah, it’s much the same questions as before – but perhaps becoming a bit more urgent as the thrust from Open Group…

Tagged with: Business, business-IT divide, certification, Enterprise architecture, Open Group, paradigm, systems, systems-thinking, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, The Outsider

The stench of systemic decay

Posted on 28 October 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

It was the smell that caught my attention first, I guess – the smell of chemicals as I walked through through the front door of their supposedly upmarket offices. But it’s something I’ve come to recognise, to watch for, as…