Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
One of my main peeves about standard business strategy-frameworks like the Business Rules Group’s Business Motivation Model is that they start way too far down, as if the organisation is the sole centre of the world. The framework I use …
Returning to England, I’m delighted to see Common Ground have been at it again: this time a magnificent new tome, “England In Particular: a celebration of the commonplace, the local, the vernacular and the distinctive”, Sue Clifford, Angela King and …
My old colleagues at the former Australian Foresight Institute have a futures conference coming up in Melbourne next weekend, 20-22 October: see AusForesight.com . Highlight of the conference is a free public forum with Richard Neville, 22 October, 1pm-4.30pm. Richard’s …
Everyone in business knows about SWOT analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. But to me it’s always seemed clumsy and unnecessarily combative – especially Weaknesses and Threats. So here’s my suggestions for an alternative acronym: SCORE. Strengths, Systems and Services that …
Colleagues in Australia might know me best by my website of the past four years, ‘Soul Dynamics’. The name was the brainchild of my former business-partner Elizabeth Hagiefremidis, and whilst it does indicate something of the kind of work on …
Over the past few months I’ve been prodded by several colleagues – Shawn Callahan of Anecdote especially – to start making my ideas on enterprise-architecture and the like more generally available. Given the new direction that I’m now heading in …