Society – Tom Graves / Tetradian

Category: Society

Gender, futures and other society-oriented areas of interest

Culture, remarkable

Posted on 25 March 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society — 2 Comments ↓

What is culture? Can we change it? And should we? A whole stream of insights on this arising from an innocuous-seeming tweet this morning from Shawn Callahan: Culture is when something happens and it’s not remarkable. Culture is what we…

Viner Journey novel – first draft

Posted on 29 October 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Scribbles / writing, Society — 4 Comments ↓

No, this one’s not about enterprise-architecture, though it is sort-of about big-picture change… Or, to be specific, it’s about my other main project at present a fiction-based series and storyworld called The Viner Codex. The core aim of the project is use a…

Tagged with: fiction, novel, Scribbles / writing, Society, viner-codex

Review-interview on ‘Changes’

Posted on 6 October 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Scribbles / writing, Society — 1 Comment ↓

It’s been good to see another review of my book ‘Changes – a business novel‘: (There’s a sizeable free-sample of the book on Leanpub: go to the home-page for the book, and then click on the ‘Read free sample’ button…

On innovation, foundations, scaffolding and Portakabins

Posted on 23 August 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Futures, Society — 2 Comments ↓

Given that I’m reframing my work here as ‘maker of tools for change’, it seems worthwhile to republish from my now long-defunct Sidewise blog this 2010 post on some on the realities of change that must be acknowledged and addressed if…

An inventory, sorted

Posted on 13 August 2017 by

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I’ll try for another way to sort and describe the current state of that stack of tools and methods that I’ve developed over the past decade or so, to guide business change and transformation, and that, for various reasons, I’d nicknamed…

Still here, still busy

Posted on 31 July 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Enterprise architecture, Society — 10 Comments ↓

Yeah, I’ll admit I’ve gone a bit quiet recently. Over here on this blog, at least. But it hasn’t been that I haven’t been doing anything. There is a lot that’s going on at present – though most of it is…

Tagged with: conference, Enterprise architecture, metatools, tools

The bucket-list – a keyword-schema

Posted on 25 June 2017 by

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

I’ll admit it: there’s an awful lot of stuff on this website of mine. And there are so many tools and suchlike here that it can be difficult to find one’s way around, or to work out which tools to…

The bucket-list – changing direction

Posted on 24 June 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Scribbles / writing, Society — 10 Comments ↓

I’ve given up on enterprise-architecture. Why? Several reasons, really. The main one is that, even now, enterprise-architecture still isn’t enterprise architecture – and there are still massive vested-interests against its ever being so. Its literal meaning should be ‘the architecture of the enterprise‘;…

At IASA Ireland 2017

Posted on 22 June 2017 by

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

I’ve spent the past week in Ireland, first in Dublin at the IASA Ireland 2017 conference (co-hosted by ICS, the Irish Computer Society), and also at a follow-on event organised by Gar Mac Críosta. Paddy Baxter‘s theme for the conference…

May Day, and a mayday for our world

Posted on 1 May 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider — 7 Comments ↓

And yeah, this is where it gets seriously scary. Not just for me: for just about everyone. I mentioned in the previous post that “I hate the money-economy”. It might be useful if I explained why? — Yes, this is May Day. Beltane,…