Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For…
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I’m still here…
Tom G
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Tagged with: Business, change, complexity, culture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, RBPEA, Society
Confirming the direction
Tom G
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Yeah, it’s been a while since I wrote anything new here… – kind of overdue for Normal Service Will Be Resumed and all that…? But yes, I am still here, still working, still pushing onward. And gratified to see that, yes,…
Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, responsibility, sense-making, strategy, taxonomy, values
Culture, remarkable
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…
Tagged with: Business, culture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, shawn callahan, Society, values, worldview
Viner Journey novel – first draft
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…
Review-interview on ‘Changes’
Tom G
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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…
Tagged with: book, business architecture, change, complexity, darryl carr, EAPJ, Enterprise architecture, Futures, narrative, Scribbles / writing, Society
On innovation, foundations, scaffolding and Portakabins
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…
Tagged with: change, construction, ideation, imagination, innovation, metaphor, process development, product development
An inventory, sorted
Tom G
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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…
Tagged with: complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, meta-methodology, methodology, RBPEA, Scribbles / writing, Society
Still here, still busy
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…
The bucket-list – a keyword-schema
Tom G
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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…
Tagged with: career, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, meta-methodology, methodology, RBPEA, Scribbles / writing, Society
The bucket-list – changing direction
Tom G
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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‘;…
Tagged with: career, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Scribbles / writing, Society
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