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Various business-oriented areas of interest

Push or pull? – two views of enterprise

Posted on 22 July 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 1 Comment ↓

For digital-transformation, what’s the difference between ‘push’ and ‘pull’? And where and how does enterprise-story come into the picture? At first, these questions might seem more about marketing and suchlike than about ‘digital’ as such – yet the reality is…

Making sense of complexity: A reframe for SCAN

Posted on 15 July 2019 by

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What’s a simple way to make sense of complexity? For me, the go-to tool for this is SCAN – a visual-checklist to map out uncertainty and complexity relative to a given moment or given action: SCAN has been around for almost…

What is enterprise? What is architecture?

Posted on 8 July 2019 by

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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…

RBPEA: How to build a world beyond money

Posted on 4 July 2019 by

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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…

RBPEA: Why imagine a world beyond money

Posted on 2 July 2019 by

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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…

RBPEA: Imagine a world beyond money

Posted on 1 July 2019 by

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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…

RBPEA: A taste for value

Posted on 30 June 2019 by

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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…

On ‘shared-enterprise’

Posted on 24 June 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 21 Comments ↓

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…

Dump the financial incentives!

Posted on 5 June 2019 by

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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…

Posted on 1 May 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

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…