Back when we were kids, there was one well-worn answer to those long damp dreary days of the English so-called summer: pull out the board-games! One of which, of course, was Monopoly: Which worked well, for a while. As kids,…
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Hidden perils of co-branding
For any organisation that’s in the public-eye, a co-branding deal sounds like a perfect win-win: you get a pile of useful cash merely for letting someone put up a load of posters around the place. What could possibly go wrong…
Tagged with: anti-client, brand, Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, reputation, Society, story, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
RBPEA: Wrapping up on gender
In what ways can we use explorations at the RBPEA (Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture) scope and scale to create insights for practical use in everyday-level enterprise-architectures? For example – in the specific case of this blog-series – what can we learn from…
Tagged with: abuse, anarchist, anticlient, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, gender, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
RBPEA: An anticlient’s tale
How does someone become an anticlient – a person who’s committed to the same aims of the same shared-enterprise, but vehemently disagrees with how you or your organisation are acting within it? And, since anticlient-actions can actually kill the entire…
Tagged with: abuse, anarchist, anticlient, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, gender, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
RBPEA: On abuse and gender
What is abuse, or violence? How do we prevent it, or at least reduce it? And to what extent, and in what ways, is gender a contributing factor in any of this? In line with the theme of this blog-series, in…
Tagged with: abuse, anarchist, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, gender, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
RBPEA: a quick note on inequalities
This is a quick practical follow-on to the previous post ‘RBPEA: On equality and gender‘. In the ‘Practical applications’ section at the end, where we shift down from the big-picture and refocus on everyday enterprise-architecture, I asserted that “inequalities are…
Tagged with: abuse, anarchist, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, gender, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
RBPEA: On equality and gender
What is equality? How do we create it, support it? – and why? Is equal always the same as identical? – and if not, why not, and how not? And what part does gender play in any of these? –…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, equality, Futures, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, sexism, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
RBPEA: On empathy and gender
What is empathy? How does it differ from sympathy, and why? How do we avoid the trap of pseudo-empathy, or getting caught up in the Hunter’s Dilemma? And what part – if any – does gender play in each of…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, decision-making, effectiveness, empathy, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, gender, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, sympathy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
RBPEA: On power and gender
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…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, gender, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
