This one’s a follow-up on my previous post, from a month ago now, ‘On not retiring‘. What I said back there was that, yeah, fairly obviously, people like me (and you too, I presume) don’t ever really retire – we…
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: career, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Scribbles / writing, Society
Enterprise-architecture – a further-futures report
We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture [EA]; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report is in two parts:…
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Enterprise-architecture – a near-futures report
We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report…
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Enterprise-architecture – a changes report
A couple weeks back I wrote a post about what I see as the current status for enterprise-architecture – where the discipline is right now, how it’s different in different parts of the world, and how some of the big…
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Sense, make-sense, decide, act
A bit more on methods for whole-enterprise architecture – and for many other domains, for that matter. We can summarise the suggested core-method for whole-enterprise architecture as follows: We need to take some care around keeping it simple, and maintaining…
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On not retiring
Kind of a personal landmark, I guess: today I reach so-called ‘retirement-age’, where I’m supposedly meant to kick back, relax and walk away from all of the stresses of a lifetime of work. Hmm… no chance of that happening, is…
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Enterprise-architecture – a status-report
For me, the past couple of months or so has been somewhat of a whirl: keynotes and several other presentations at five conferences, a blur of small consultancy-gigs, maybe a dozen workshops, and a whole lot more, across six countries…
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Methods for whole-enterprise architecture – Keep it simple
For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. One crucial criterion is that any methods and frameworks we use must support fractality – the same patterns, regardless of scope…
Gross Demoter Score
Marketing departments of so many organisations these days seem obsessed about their Net Promoter Score – the percentage of customers who’ll promote their products to others. “Free advertising!” is how some have described it to me – hence very enticing to…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, gross demoter score, marketing, net promoter score, responsibility, values
Another SCAN crossmap: Kolb Learning Styles
Another SCAN crossmap – this time with the Kolb Learning Styles model – that may well be useful in the knowledge-management and skills-development-space. It was first spotted by Archi co-developer Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie – many thanks, JB! I’ll let JB set…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: complexity, david kolb, decision-making, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, kolb learning styles, learning, SCAN, sense-making
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