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Back on track

By Tom G Posted on 3 March 2007 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

With much help from the guys at The Computer Shop (49a Crouch Street, Colchester CO3 3EN; 01206 576043; www.tcs2000.co.uk) – they’ve definitely earned a free advert!) I now have my laptop back, and seem to be back on track. (And …

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Laptop trouble

By Tom G Posted on 3 March 2007 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Laptop has been giving the merry ‘blue screen of death’ every couple of days for the past couple of weeks, but has always recovered up till now. Not yesterday. 🙁 Hoping it’s just memory problems. as the shop’s first tests …

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On the road again?

By Tom G Posted on 1 March 2007 Posted in Business, The Outsider 3 Comments

After three months of time-wasting travail in this “foggy, dull and raw… nook-shotten isle of Albion”, turns out the only place I can get a real enterprise-architecture gig is back in Australia… So it looks like I’m back on the …

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More on the EA book

By Tom G Posted on 26 February 2007 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Power and responsibility, Society 4 Comments

Shawn Callahan at Anecdote kindly asked for a ‘preview of the topics’ in the enterprise-architecture book that I’m brewing. Existing enterprise-architecture frameworks – particularly TOGAF – all have a blurry, ill-described box labelled ‘business architecture’, which you’re supposed to deal …

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Out in the back-room

By Tom G Posted on 25 February 2007 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society 3 Comments

Apologies for being a bit quiet lately: I’m working flat-out on a mini-book on enterprise-architecture, with the aim of having it ready, preferably in printed form, in time for the next TOGAF conference, in Paris, in late April 2007 (23-25, …

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The relationship economy, and more

By Tom G Posted on 8 February 2007 Posted in Business, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society No Comments

One of the few online newsletters I subscribe to is that of Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and other great ideas – and this time he came up trumps, with an article called “Building a Relationship Economy” (not …

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And more enterprise-architecture

By Tom G Posted on 7 February 2007 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure No Comments

Been hammering away over the past few weeks, trying to get down on paper (or equivalent) some of the ideas I’ve been brewing on enterprise-architecture and such-like. Hence yet another Powerpoint on the Tetradian website, on the exciting (to very …

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Skill-sets for enterprise-architects

By Tom G Posted on 2 February 2007 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Knowledge No Comments

A really good article on the skill-sets needed by enterprise-architects: Sally Bean, The elusive enterprise architect. I’d say it’s the closest I’ve ever seen to a straight business-type description of what I do in my professional work as Tetradian Consulting …

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More on 'Vision, role, mission, goal'

By Tom G Posted on 2 February 2007 Posted in Business, Futures No Comments

Some considerable time ago I promised more on the ‘Vision, role, mission, goal’ framework, my basic model for an ‘audit-trail’ for business motivation. So yup, I’ve finally gotten Round To It: it’s now up on the Tetradian site as a …

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Architecture as system

By Tom G Posted on 25 January 2007 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure 1 Comment

Probably the wrong meaning of ‘architecture’ for most people, unfortunately. But if your bent is what’s known as ‘enterprise architecture’ in the IT-systems field, you may find useful a new presentation available for download from my Tetradian website. Full title …

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