Knowledge – Tom Graves / Tetradian

Category: Knowledge

All aspects of business knowledge

What is knowledge?

Posted on 13 July 2020 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 7 Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, taxonomy

Where have all the good skills gone?

Posted on 28 May 2020 by

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

[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…

On skills: 10, 100, 1000, 10000 hours

Posted on 26 May 2020 by

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

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

Posted on 13 May 2020 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge — 1 Comment ↓

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

Posted on 3 January 2020 by

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

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…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, methodology, strategy, values

Toolsets for enterprise-architecture – another try

Posted on 8 July 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 4 Comments ↓

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…

Documenting the Not-known

Posted on 6 May 2018 by

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

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’

Posted on 21 January 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility — 1 Comment ↓

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…

On gamification

Posted on 16 October 2017 by

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

One of the themes that’s come up during our Patreon-funded further development of ‘the bucket-list’ suite of change-guidance tools is that of gamification – using some kind of game to guide the process of sensemaking and decision-making for a given…

An inventory, sorted

Posted on 13 August 2017 by

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

I’ll try for another way to sort and describe the current state of that stack of tools and methods that I’ve developed over the past decade or so, to guide business change and transformation, and that, for various reasons, I’d nicknamed…