Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Structure, operation and modelling of large organisations
Just discovered, courtesy of a much-appreciated comment from John Gøtze, that my e-book download-links in Tetradian Books weren’t working properly. Or rather, they were, but only for ‘right click and save’, not for simple click, which is what I’d written. …
I’ve now published the next in my ‘Tetradian Enterprise Architecture’ series, SEMPER and SCORE: enhancing enterprise effectiveness. Details on the Tetradian Books website – see here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book. It includes a full …
As you’ll see from the comments to my previous post on Cynefin, Dave Snowden again kindly came back with an appropriate critique: The fact that order exist in nature (a constrained system that prevents agent action independent of the system) …
Another trail following up on Dave Snowden‘s comment to my previous Cynefin post, and specifically to this one assertion of Dave’s: Order exists in the real world. Sounds obvious: but does it? Does ‘order’ really exist? Or do we simply …
This one will probably only make sense to those who have some experience of Cynefin (see also Cognitive Edge) – but it should be useful anyway even if you don’t. The diagram shows the usual layout of the Cynefin domains …
A couple of weeks back I ran a half-day seminar on sustainability themes for the students at An tIonad Glas, the Organic College in Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick, Ireland – organiccollege.com (many thanks to Catherine Caulwell for setting it up for …
It’s taken me about three days to wind down after the flat-out networking / talk-fest that was the TOGAF conference. Today I’ve had to plough my way through something like 45 presentations and half a dozen complete books on various …
In the area of enterprise-architecture I work in – i.e. real enterprise-level architecture – a real sense of a shift happening since the last TOGAF conference I went to in Paris last year. Last time it was an almost impossible …
This one’s a follow-on to a comment in one of the Content Economy articles I referenced yesterday: What is Enterprise Architecture? – “Architecture is the art of matching requirements with constraints in complex situations”. In conventional requirements-modelling, we only model …
A somewhat-belated (sorry, Dave 🙁 ) pointer to David Snowden and Mary Boone’s article A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making, in the current Harvard Business Review. Tagline is: Wise executives tailor their approach to fit the complexity of the circumstances …