What is ‘efficiency’? – in particular, ‘efficiency’ in any system that’s subject to real-world variances? Starting-point for this one was yet another passing item in my Twitterstream: RT @MentalHealthCop: If providers are contractually obliged to run hospitals at 98% capacity, is…
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Efficient versus effective
Tagged with: Business, effectiveness, efficiency, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, SCAN, Society, systems, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society
Managers, leaders and hierarchies
Is ‘manager’ the same as ‘leader’? Are leaders always managers? And are hierarchies – and, in particular, classic management-hierarchies – always a natural, necessary and unavoidable fact of (larger) enterprises? These questions came up for me whilst reading three articles…
Tagged with: bob sutton, Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Five Elements model, hierarchy, leadership, management
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Price, value, worth and cost
It didn’t look like much. Not worth much, certainly. It had been a gift from a friend, a former colleague: I’d had it for years, kept it reasonably safe in an old battered ring-case, until finally it was lost somewhere.…
The gift of a world
It’s heavy – that’s all I can tell at first. Slowly, carefully, I unwrap the present my great-niece has given me. It’s a small wooden box, with brass hinges and fastener, and with my name inlaid on top in green…
Tagged with: economics, gift-economy, possession-economy, RBPEA, responsibility-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Power and responsibility, Society
Business-models between for-profit and not-for-profit
Is money the only possible form of profit? And if not, what does that imply for design of business-models? – and, beyond that, to economics itself? This is one that I’ve been struggling with, both personally and professionally, for a…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business model, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, RBPEA
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
A kind of manifesto (short version)
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? As is perhaps too usual in my writing, the full-length version of the ‘manifesto’ ended up, uh, kinda long……
Tagged with: Business, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, strategy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society
A kind of manifesto
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… So, what next? Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? At the least, time for a fairly major paradigm-change in how we view the…
Tagged with: Business, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, strategy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society
Pay, performance and the NHS
What can we do about the NHS – the UK’s National Health Service? Costs are spiralling, its IT failures are internationally infamous, and after several horrendous scandals, morale is at an all-time low. The British government knows exactly what to…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, NHS, paradigm, pay, performance, performance-based pay, quality, RBPEA
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society
At Social Business Summit London 2013
What’s the best way for businesses to engage with social-media? What are the successes, the traps and gotchas, the new ideas and innovations that work well, the old ideas that don’t? Those were some of the themes that Dachis Group’s…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, conference, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, social business, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
