What do I mean, when I talk about ‘value-governance’ in an enterprise-architecture sense? In Enterprise Canvas, what does that ‘Value Governance’ cell represent? What do its services actually do, for the service, the organisation and the overall enterprise? This one’s for…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
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On value-governance
Tagged with: beneficiary, Business, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, governance, investor, RBPEA, shareholder-value, Society, stakeholder, stakeholder-value, value, values
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Price, value and Glasgow School of Art
If you want to understand the difference between price and value, look no further than the tragedy unfolding today in Glasgow: the Glasgow School of Art - Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s great masterpiece of Art Nouveau - going up in flames. This Wikimedia photo gives…
Keep the focus on the right market!
If enterprise architecture at present is perhaps too WEIRD and too WIRED, how would we describe current management models? And if they’re as mistaken and misfocused as enterprise-architecture still seems to be, what impact does that have on their organisations…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, market, taylorism
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Let it go
Let it go? Actually, I can’t. Or won’t. Or don’t know how. Or maybe it won’t let me go… Something, anyway… Right now I’m in the somewhat embarrassing position of being hooked on a Disney movie. Or, to be precise, one…
Tagged with: Disney, Enterprise architecture, Frozen, motivation, power, skills, Society, the Outsider
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider
Efficient versus effective
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…
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
