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Structure, operation and modelling of large organisations

Architecture as system

By Tom G Posted on 25 January 2007 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure 1 Comment

Probably the wrong meaning of ‘architecture’ for most people, unfortunately. But if your bent is what’s known as ‘enterprise architecture’ in the IT-systems field, you may find useful a new presentation available for download from my Tetradian website. Full title …

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TWoPS at first-hand

By Tom G Posted on 18 January 2007 Posted in Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society No Comments

Been somewhat withdrawn over the past couple of weeks, struggling to deal with one of the more stupid consequences of TWoPS (That WOrst Possible System) – namely getting paid work, which I ‘must’ do in order to be able to …

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More on TWPS

By Tom G Posted on 8 January 2007 Posted in Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society 3 Comments

A few more comments on That Worst Possible System (TWPS), whilst I’m still bashing the ideas around in my head. It’s interesting to look at some of the other artefacts and distortions of TWPS, aka the ‘normal’ money-based (or more …

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More on SCORE

By Tom G Posted on 24 December 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Futures, Knowledge No Comments

As promised some time ago, I’ve now completed a Powerpoint on the SCORE strategy-assessment methodology – you’ll find the PDF file of the Notes view up on the Tetradian website at http://tetradian.com/download/intro-to-score.pdf . Comments, if you would? (And if you …

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Architect of what?

By Tom G Posted on 12 December 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Knowledge No Comments

Back in the UK, I’m pottering around looking at the job-scene whilst working on some new material for Tetradian.com. The nearest to a conventional job-description for what I do is ‘Enterprise Architect’ – the structure of large organisations, with somewhat …

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Futures and futures

By Tom G Posted on 21 November 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Futures, Society 2 Comments

Linda asked for a quick summary of ‘futures’. There are two very different business meanings of ‘futures’: ‘futures’ as a category of financial-derivatives trading ‘futures’ as a strategic view To my mind, the former perhaps used to have some practical …

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At the TOGAF conference

By Tom G Posted on 25 October 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure No Comments

Been networking hard in the other sense over the past couple of days, at the TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) enterprise architecture practitioners conference in Lisbon. More later when I’ve had a chance to rest 🙂 but some good …

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