This is another of the sort-of status-reports about the ‘hammer it out in practice’ work that designer Joseph Chittenden and I have been doing on Five Elements, to make it more accessible and usable for a more general audience. In…
Category: Complexity / Structure
Structure, operation and modelling of large organisations
Fractality in Five Elements method
Tagged with: change, complexity, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, methodology, sense-making
Documenting the Not-known
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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…
The relationship is the asset
“Our people are our greatest asset!” How often have you heard that phrase? How often have you used that phrase yourself? But how often have you stopped to think about what it means? – and what it implies in real…
Tagged with: asset, Business, business architecture, Enterprise architecture, relational-asset, responsibility
Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds
It began with an octopus; wandered into an accidental remark about “a flocking of Boyds”; and then drifted off somewhat sideways from there. But seems that this crabwise shuffle may be leading somewhere useful – for my current explorations of…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, John Boyd, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
Service, product and architecture terminology
This one’s a follow-on to the ‘Service, product, service‘ post, but with an emphasis on the role of architecture-terminology itself, rather than any specific item referred to by that terminology. This starts with a private LinkedIn-message that a colleague sent…
Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, product, service, taxonomy, terminology
Service, product, service
What’s the relationship between product and service? And if, as in the Enterprise Canvas model, we assert that ‘everything is or represents a service’, what then is a product? The short-answer is that a product is a ‘frozen’ service – a…
Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons
Following on from the previous post ‘Sensemaking: Into the void‘, what’s a good everyday analogy or example on how to develop our skills in sensemaking and strategy? In particular, how to understand, apply and use the ‘sense, make-sense, decide, act‘…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, Futures, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
Sensemaking: Into the void
How do we make sense when we don’t know what’s going on? What happens when we find ourselves diving into ‘the void’ of the unknown and uncertain? And what can we do there, to make enough sense of ‘the unknown’ to make useful…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, Futures, SCAN, sense-making
Insights on SCAN: The dangers of belief
And now, the last part in this brief series on insights about the SCAN sensemaking / decision-making framework that arose whilst working on our clean-up, for more general use, of the tools in the inventory. This time it’s about how…
Insights on SCAN: Rethinking OODA
Yet another in this theme of insights about the SCAN sensemaking / decision-making framework that arose whilst working on clean-up for more general use of the tools in the inventory. This time, it’s about a crossmap between SCAN and John…
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