One of the great things about doing my ‘Tetradian on Architectures‘ mini-video series is that I get to tackle real-world questions about everyday enterprise-architecture, sent in by people all around the world. In this case, for the current episode in…
Category: Business
Various business-oriented areas of interest
Building effectiveness in a small business
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, change, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, methodology
Toolsets for enterprise-architecture – another try
What tools and toolsets do we need, to support our work in the architecture of the enterprise as a whole? The short and more cynical answer is “Not what we have right now”. To be blunt, maybe none of the…
Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, metamodel, methodology, narrative knowledge, sense-making, toolset, toolsets
Architecture-videos schedule – July-August 2018
For future reference, here’s the current schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for the next couple of months: Episode 23: ‘Balancing theory and practice in enterprise-architecture’ (to be published 05 July 2018) Episode 24:…
Against fragmentation
If we’re trying to make sense of systems, our greatest enemy is fragmentation. Or, to be more precise, the type of fragmentation that arises from misuse of analysis. Specialise, says analysis. Specialise again! And specialise the specialisms! Hyperspecialise! Cut it…
Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, fragmentation, generalist, generalist vs specialist, marketing, paradigm
Open Group, HERA and healthcare
The Open Group’s Healthcare Forum recently published (free, but registration required) their version 0.1 ‘snapshot’ for HERA, their proposed ‘Healthcare Enterprise Reference Architecture’. What follows is a quick(ish) review, together with some practical recommendations. I’ll try to be nice –…
Tagged with: Business, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, healthcare, IT-architecture, IT-centrism, Open Group, standards
Fractality in Five Elements method
This is another of the sort-of status-reports about the ‘hammer it out in practice’ work that designer Joseph Chittenden and I have been doing on Five Elements, to make it more accessible and usable for a more general audience. In…
Tagged with: change, complexity, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, methodology, sense-making
Documenting the Not-known
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
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In our work on simplifying the ‘inventory’ of tools and techniques I’d developed for whole-enterprise architecture and the like, one of the challenges we keep hitting up against is how to capture ideas, information and insights, as they appear during…
The relationship is the asset
“Our people are our greatest asset!” How often have you heard that phrase? How often have you used that phrase yourself? But how often have you stopped to think about what it means? – and what it implies in real…
Tagged with: asset, Business, business architecture, Enterprise architecture, relational-asset, responsibility
Architecture-videos schedule – April-June 2018
For future reference, here’s the current schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for the next few months: Episode 10: ‘Always start from a business-question‘ (published 05 April 2018) Episode 11: ‘Where does EA fit…
Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds
It began with an octopus; wandered into an accidental remark about “a flocking of Boyds”; and then drifted off somewhat sideways from there. But seems that this crabwise shuffle may be leading somewhere useful – for my current explorations of…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, John Boyd, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
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