Society – Tom Graves / Tetradian

Category: Society

Gender, futures and other society-oriented areas of interest

On cults

Posted on 12 January 2020 by

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What is a cult? What is it that underpins a cult? From where do cults gain their power? And how do the same principles apply within organisations? Over on Twitter, Mel Conway (of ‘Conway’s Law‘) asked this question: We all…

Changes coming

Posted on 31 December 2019 by

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New books, new strategy, new location, for a new decade: that’s me. And with it, big changes coming up for me, all within the first half of the coming year. In late January, there’ll be the launch of the first…

Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare

Posted on 9 November 2019 by

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I’d been sort-of looking after my elderly mother for some years now – the whole of the past decade, probably, though more and more so over the years. Earlier this year it had reached the point where I couldn’t really…

On power

Posted on 1 November 2019 by

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What is power? Where does it come from? Where does it go? Who has it? Who doesn’t have it? Who should have it? Who shouldn’t have it? And why? – or why not, for that matter – to any of those questions…? Perennial questions indeed, in just about…

Writing-exercise: Utopia and dystopia

Posted on 23 July 2019 by

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Yes, I do indeed write about other topics than enterprise-architecture! – in fact I’ve done a fair bit of work on fiction over the past couple of decades, as it seems one of the best ways to get complex ideas…

Tagged with: dystopia, how-to, Scribbles / writing, utopia

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…

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 –…