Structure, operation and modelling of large organisations
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 …
For understanding about narrative-knowledge and non-IT-based knowledge in general, and how to access it and use it in large organisations, there’s no-one better in the world than Shawn Callahan and his Australian colleagues at Anecdote Pty Ltd. So if you’re …
Thought I’d write up a reply to a query from Shawn Callahan at Anecdote, about vision and mission. Shawn wanted clarification on what vision is – particularly in relation to brand vision – and how it differs from mission. What …
Enterprise-architecture again. As promised, I’ve completed some notes on the Visio 2003 template for building a function model. It’s nothing fancy, just using as much as I can of Visio’s ‘shapesheet’ functionality (deliberately no VBA, otherwise you’d get endless complaints …
More enterprise-architecture stuff. Plodding on with Function Model development for my current client – this model being the business anchor for a whole string of other models such as the Business Systems Model, the Information Systems Model and so on …
Another weekend gone, but the revised draft of the enterprise-architecture book is up on the Tetradian site here. (Warning again that it’s large: more than 2.8Mb in PDF form. Let me know if you need the .DOC instead.) Main changes …