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Protect your digital legacy

Posted on 8 July 2020 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — 2 Comments ↓

(For a quick overview, see also the video ‘Enterprise architecture and coronavirus: Digital legacy‘, in the ‘Tetradian on Architectures’ playlist.) How will you protect your digital legacy? Do you know what that legacy is? Or where it is? And what…

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

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society — 2 Comments ↓

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…