What the heck is ‘enterprise-architecture’? Why are there are so many arguments on this, so many conflicting opinions? Perhaps a key clue is in the fact that there is so much argument about this? And that maybe the best way to…
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What is enterprise? What is architecture?
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RBPEA: How to build a world beyond money
Tom G
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
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Beyond money. It’s how most of us already run the economics of our own households. It’s how most of us already run most of our day-to-day interactions at work. It’s how perhaps most of us would already aim to interact…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, how-to, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
RBPEA: Why imagine a world beyond money
In the previous two posts in this series on background behind futures for enterprise-architecture (see video), we explored the idea of a focus on value, rather than money, as the anchor for our architectures; and then set out to imagine a world…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
RBPEA: Imagine a world beyond money
Tom G
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After the previous post, we’re left with a question to explore: Does money really make the world go round? Or would our world actually be better without it? Let’s put it to the test… We know already that money doesn’t…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
RBPEA: A taste for value
Tom G
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As enterprise-architecture expands outward (see video) to a much broader scope and scale (see video), we’ll need a different kind of anchor for the architecture itself: less on means such as IT or money, more on aims, ends and purpose. In short, a…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, value
On ‘shared-enterprise’
What exactly is ‘the enterprise’ in enterprise-architecture? To what extent is that enterprise a shared-enterprise? And how does this affect enterprise-architecture itself? These questions have come up a lot in the past few weeks, in back-and-forth conversations on LinkedIn and elsewhere. The…
Tagged with: business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, values, worldview
Dump the financial incentives!
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society
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If you want to understand what our enterprise-architecture disciplines really need to be able to address, take a good long look at the healthcare context. Complexity of every possible kind: whole-of-system interactions, interweaving lifecycles, the urgent mixed in with the long-term –…
I’m still here…
Tom G
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider
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Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For…
Tagged with: Business, change, complexity, culture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, RBPEA, Society
Architecture-videos schedule – April-June 2019
(Late again with this one – apologies…) For general reference, here’s the schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for 2019 second-quarter: Episode 62: ‘Rethinking projects: The Gantt chart‘ (published 04 April 2019) Episode 63:…
Architecture-videos schedule – January-March 2019
(Running a bit late with this one – apologies…) For general reference, here’s the schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for 2019 first-quarter: Episode 49: ‘The usefulness of capability-maps‘ (published 03 January 2019) Episode…
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