Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Been offline for a few days with an annoying DNS problem (my mistake, ultimately :-{), but came across a brilliant if disturbing article by Henry Porter in London’s “The Independent”: We’re all Suspects Now [behind paywall]. Mainly about the steady …
Perhaps the bleakest dichotomy of all: the physics definition of ‘power’ is “the ability to do work”, whereas most social definitions are more like “the ability to avoid work”… Therein lies perhaps the most serious problem for organisational effectiveness: which …
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 …