Structure, operation and modelling of large organisations
Been thinking of another way to distinguish between enterprise architecture (the real ‘whole of enterprise’ form, not IT-architecture masquerading as ‘enterprise’ architecture) and business architecture, because at first glance they seem to cover much the same scope. Perhaps the simplest …
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I’ve been receiving so many useful links and comments via Twitter from Shawn Callahan at Anecdote that I thought better put some of ’em up here, both to share them, and as somewhere to record them before they scroll off …
More ramblings on the ‘business anarchist’ theme. The conventional ‘scientific’ assumptions about business reality – as in Taylor’s classic ‘Scientific Management‘ – assume that everything is based on predictable Newtonian-style rules and laws. It’s sort-of true, up to a point, …
Okay, back ‘home’ in England after the TOGAF conference in San Diego. Time to reflect a bit. First: a real sense that I’m not as on my own in my approach to enterprise-architecture as I thought and felt I’d been: …
Spotted this one in the BMJ again: kind of illustrates the power of the pilots’ simple ‘pre-take-off checklist’ – or in this case a similar checklist for surgeons: Research by World Health Organization (“New England Journal of Medicine” 2009 Jan …
Delighted to see that Shawn Callahan and some of his Anecdote colleagues who I worked with in Melbourne are coming ‘oop North’ to run a series of narrative-knowledge / business-storytelling workshops in London in June 2009. Shawn was the one …
Was intending to miss the next TOGAF conference – it’s in February, in San Diego, which means dealing with all the joys of US ‘Homeland Security’ as well as a seriously expensive travel-bill. But it looks like I’d better go, …
At last finished our article for Time & Mind – final title is “‘Spirit of Place’ as process – archaeography, dowsing and perceptual mapping at Belas Knap“, and should be out in their July 2009 issue. (Many thanks also to …
Noticed during last week that the downloads for SEMPER and SCORE suddenly spiked for a couple of days, and found out why: my colleagues at Anecdote, down in Melbourne, had mentioned the book on their blog. The section that Mark …
Still recovering somewhat from a thoroughly nasty run-in with a guy named Wolf, on an on-line list about future vision for enterprise-architecture. (For obvious legal reasons, I’d probably better not give any more details than that.) To give some idea, …