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A kind of manifesto (short version)

Posted on 2 December 2013 by Tom G — 3 Comments ↓

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……

A kind of manifesto

Posted on 2 December 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

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…

Pay, performance and the NHS

Posted on 7 October 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

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…

At Social Business Summit London 2013

Posted on 25 June 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

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…

Every organisation is ‘for-profit’

Posted on 8 June 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

What’s the fundamental difference between a for-profit organisation, and a not-for-profit one? Or, for that matter, between either of those and, say, a government department, or an NGO (non-governmental organisation)? Short answer: none – because every organisation is a for-profit organisation. The only…

Extreme cooperation

Posted on 14 May 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

If you were literally joined to someone else for life, how well would you cope? Over the past couple of days I’ve been watching one of the most inspiring television-documentaries I’ve ever seen: ‘Abby and Brittany: Joined for life‘. (The…

Tagged with: Abby and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
Posted in Power and responsibility, Society

A Modest Proposal

Posted on 12 May 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

After half a decade, the challenges and problems arising from the financial collapse of 2007-8 are still dragging on and on. With the economies of entire countries seemingly brought to their knees, and no apparent end in sight to any…

Tagged with: Business, enterprise, financial services, jonathan swift, joseph schumpeter, paradigm, RBPEA, Society
Posted in Business, Futures, Society

Everyday sexism of the subtler kind

Posted on 10 May 2013 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

How does sexism and suchlike become invisibly ingrained in our society? Answer: whenever said sexism is promoted as ‘progressive thinking’… To many people, the term ‘sexism’ applies only to gender-imbalance that directly affects women: yet a few moments thought should…

Anticlients are antibodies

Posted on 5 May 2013 by Tom G — 1 Comment ↓

Over the past few months I’ve built up quite a nice collection of what I call ‘anticlient‘ tweets: small complaints – or sometimes not so small – about how someone feels about their interactions with some organisation. Most organisations still…

“Who will lead us out of our uncertainty?”

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

“The world still reels from the fallout from the crisis of 2008 :: Who will lead us out of our uncertainty?” Those are the frame-captions for a cartoon-style advert that’s currently running on the Forbes website, for an upcoming conference…

Tagged with: Business, chaos, complexity, conference, economics, London Business School, politics, uncertainty
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Society