This one’s a follow-up on my previous post, from a month ago now, ‘On not retiring‘. What I said back there was that, yeah, fairly obviously, people like me (and you too, I presume) don’t ever really retire – we…
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: career, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Scribbles / writing, Society
RBPEA: Opportunities unheeded…
Following on from that description of ‘further-futures’ enterprise-architecture, several folks have asked me for a real example of the kind of world that I see, as an outcome of ‘Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture‘ [RBPEA]. In other words, what would be the outcome…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: anarchist, disruption, Enterprise architecture, Futures, mythquake, paradigm, politics, power, RBPEA, Society, worldview
Enterprise-architecture – a further-futures report
We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture [EA]; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report is in two parts:…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Society Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, RBPEA
Enterprise-architecture – a near-futures report
We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Society Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, RBPEA
Enterprise-architecture – a changes report
A couple weeks back I wrote a post about what I see as the current status for enterprise-architecture – where the discipline is right now, how it’s different in different parts of the world, and how some of the big…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Society Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, IT-centrism, Knowledge
Is culture-change the same as software-change?
Should we approach culture-change as if it’s the same as software-change? At a current conference, James Archer seemed to interpret Alex Osterwalder as saying just that: jamesarcher: Company culture can be methodically designed, built, and tested almost like a software product.…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business culture, complexity, culture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, worldview
Luddite, and proud
I’m an enterprise-architect, deeply engaged in every aspect of technology and more. Which means that at times, yes, I’m also an active Luddite – and proud of it, too. Luddites? Aren’t they those crazy technophobes who go around smashing machines because they’re…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, luddism, luddite, RBPEA, responsibility, shaker, Society, technology, technology adoption, technophilia, values
Landmines on legs
What’s all the fuss about autonomous weapons? Isn’t it just a logical progression from the weapons-systems we already have? Perhaps it is – and that’s the problem… To illustrate this, first take one of these: In that form, it’s a…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: autonomous weapons-systems, complexity, defence, defense, Futures, landmines, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, worldview
Services and disservices – 6: Assessment and actions
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie a huge range of…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, complexity, culture, disservice, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, RBPEA, responsibility, SCAN, service, Society, swamp-metaphor, values, worldview
Services and disservices – 5: Social example
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie a huge range of…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: Business, complexity, culture, disservice, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, RBPEA, responsibility, service, Society, values, worldview
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