How do I think? How do I think, really? How do you think, exactly? How does anyone think – and describe their thinking? Especially about ‘big-picture’, often-abstract themes such as enterprise-architecture? Yeah, I’ve been struggling with this one a long time – a very…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
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New – EA training-course
Yep, I’ve finally Got Round To It: I’ve created a full set of materials for an EA training-course, building on the whole-of-enterprise approach that I’ve championed all of these years. (Whole-of-enterprise, that is, in contrast to the arbitrarily-constrained IT-is-the-centre-of-everything approach…
Tagged with: Business, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, tetradian, training
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
CEGMON – a blast from the past
You can blame Phil Beauvoir for this one. A few days back, the grand-master of the justly-famed Archi Open-Source toolset for Archimate (version 2.7 just released, by the way) put out a tweet that, in essence, said that his earliest…
Tagged with: assembly-language, CEGMON, dave graham, george chkiantz, history, Knowledge, mutek, ohio scientific, personal, richard elen
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Big-data, big-information, big-knowledge
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
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Healthcare and information-flow
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
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
The importance of ‘also’
“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
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Starting-friction
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
Posted in Business, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing
A kind of manifesto (short version)
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
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society
A kind of manifesto
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…
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
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society
