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Starting-friction

Posted on 11 December 2013 by Tom G — No 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 — 1 Comment ↓

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…

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

Anecdotes and government-policy

Posted on 9 September 2013 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

It started out as a comment on satire, but quietly explores some much more serious themes: this particular Twitter back-and-forth between Stephen Bounds and Shawn Callahan (via his Anecdote persona) is another one that definitely deserves a more permanent place! It…

Tagged with: anecdote, narrative knowledge, NOTES, policy, shawn callahan, stephen bounds, strategy
Posted in Futures, Knowledge

Michael Margolis on story (and business)

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

What is story? Perhaps more to the point, why story? This was another item that whipped by on the Twitterstream that I felt needed to be kept somewhere somewhat more permanent – a stream of comments on story and the nature…

Tagged with: business storytelling, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, michael margolis, narrative, narrative knowledge, story
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge

NOTES – actors, agents and extras in the enterprise

Posted on 10 June 2013 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

If the enterprise is a story, who are the actors in that story? What are their drivers and needs? How do we model and manage the relationships between those actors in the story? (This is part of an overview and…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, how-to, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, NOTES, paradigm, power, responsibility, sense-making, story
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility

Some notes on NOTES

Posted on 24 May 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

What is a narrative-oriented approach to enterprise-transformation? Why use it, and where, and how? And where did all this NOTES stuff come from, anyway? NOTES is, I admit, a somewhat-forced acronym for a way to look at business-change: Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise…