Knowledge – Tom Graves / Tetradian

Category: Knowledge

All aspects of business knowledge

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

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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…

The bucket-list – a keyword-schema

Posted on 25 June 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society — 2 Comments ↓

I’ll admit it: there’s an awful lot of stuff on this website of mine. And there are so many tools and suchlike here that it can be difficult to find one’s way around, or to work out which tools to…

A post-truth era?

Posted on 20 January 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society — 9 Comments ↓

Do we now live in a post-truth era? I’ve heard that question quite a lot over the past few weeks and months, after a year in which a lot of people made a lot of money and more from peddling…

On not-retiring – a quick status

Posted on 2 October 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

A quick status-report to say where I’m getting to so far with the business of ‘not-retiring‘. What I did in the previous post was to list the probable options for what I could/should do next. Given that the amount of…

More on not-retiring

Posted on 22 September 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — 9 Comments ↓

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…