You may have noticed some new role-titles turning up in the enterprise space. Chief Disruption Officer, for example. Or Chief Transformation Officer. A fair few variants on that theme. But what you probably won’t see – not as yet, anyway…
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Tag: business anarchist
Enterprise architect as business-anarchist
I seem to have acquired the half-joking job-title of ‘business-anarchist’. Huh? Anarchist? You mean like those crazy bomb-throwing guys from the past? Uh, no… – not quite… Quite a long way from ‘”not quite”, actually. You did notice that word ‘business’,…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business analyst, business anarchist, complexity, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, SCAN
Big-consultancies and bridging the chasm
Like all small independents in just about any industry, my relationship with ‘the big boys’ is ambivalent at best. All those big analyst-consultancies like Forrester or Gartner, the ratings-agencies like Moody’s or S&P, the big IT- or process-consultancies like IBM…
Luddite, and proud
I’m an enterprise-architect, deeply engaged in every aspect of technology and more. Which means that at times, yes, I’m also an active Luddite – and proud of it, too. Luddites? Aren’t they those crazy technophobes who go around smashing machines because they’re…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, luddism, luddite, RBPEA, responsibility, shaker, Society, technology, technology adoption, technophilia, values
Exact Lives Save Change
Exact Lives Save Change. Or it might have been Exact Change Saves Lives. Something like that, anyway. Yeah, it was definitely one of those nights – y’know, such as, in this case, I might have gotten to sleep for a few…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, The Outsider Tagged with: Business, business anarchist, Enterprise architecture, the Outsider
Services and disservices – 6: Assessment and actions
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie a huge range of…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, complexity, culture, disservice, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, RBPEA, responsibility, SCAN, service, Society, swamp-metaphor, values, worldview
Analyst, anarchist, architect
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis: the old Hegelian triad. But what’s that got to do with enterprise-architecture and the like? Quite a lot, as it happens – though we might need to take a detour or two to get there, of course. 🙂…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures Tagged with: analysis, anarchist, architect, business analysis, business anarchist, enterprise architects, skillsets
The perils of plagiarism
This one’s on the travails of being an innovative thinker who publishes on the web… Whilst writing an article on the enterprise-architecture and the Shirky Principle that I’ll post later today, I needed to add a reference to my old…
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society Tagged with: business anarchist, plagiarism, R2 Meshwork, robin wood, sidewise
Notes on 'Business Anarchist'
Several people have asked me for more information about the book I’m writing at present, ‘The Business Anarchist‘, so here’s a quick summary of the themes and structure. Who or what is a ‘business-anarchist‘? Anyone who works with inherent uncertainty…
New weblog – 'Thinking sidewise'
Following up a recommendation from Shawn Callahan of Australian narrative-knowledge consultancy Anecdote, I’ve started a new weblog, thinking side-wise. This existing weblog has developed a more technical emphasis around enterprise architecture, together with an assortment of other personal themes, all…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, shareholder, sidewise, weblog
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