Structure, operation and modelling of large organisations
What happens at the other end of enterprise-architecture? What local knowledge is needed to implement the abstractions of an overall architecture ‘blueprint’ in real practice in the real world? Whilst reviewing research for another book (in another subject area, somewhat …
Following up on my conversation with Chris Potts, a link to another enterprise-architecture group, the Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation – see http://www.geao.org/. Clicking on the ‘What we believe’ link on their home-page brought up this statement: We believe that the …
This somewhat impenetrable acronym is one of the best things I’ve seen in enterprise architecture for a fair old while, ‘cos it means that someone is thinking wider than just IT boxes… The ‘someone’ in this case is Nigel Green …
A useful email correspondence about SEMPER with enterprise architect Sally Bean brought up a couple of questions which others are likely to ask, so I thought I’d put the answers up here: 1: “are the labels always meaningful?” I hope …
Continuing the fixups from my mildly embarrassing blunder with e-book downloads on Tetradian Books – looks like I didn’t get it right that time either. đ Looks like it may have been a case of Read The Fine Manual… oops. …
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 …