This one’s a pick-up from a ‘tweet’ by Colin Wheeler, replying to John Polgreen: Depends on the true definition of each. One person said to me that there is no business without information, one and same. Red-rag-to-bull time for me: …

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As part of the setup for getting the ‘What is power, anyway?‘ slide-pack online at Slideshare, I’ve finally gotten round to doing something I should have done a year ago: a three-page reference-sheet version of the ‘Manifesto‘ on power in …

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“An oldie but a goodie” – this one dates from way back in 2002, but is still relevant as a way to get people thinking about the human side of systems. Probably best viewed as a self-running ‘PowerPoint Slideshow’ – …

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A good Twitter exchange with John Polgreen (thanks John!) set me thinking yet again about the future of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework). At present, TOGAF is just about the standard for the enterprise-architecture (EA) field, and the recent …

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Nick Malik of Microsoft kindly wrote back a comment to my (as he put it) “not flattering, to say the least” earlier post on his Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) First off, many thanks, and I do acknowledge that, to …

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One of the ArchiMate crew, Remco Blom, pointed me to Nick Malik’s article on the Microsoft MSDN site describing and launching his ‘Enterprise Business Motivation Model’. A quick summary: it’s an interesting attempt to unify various other business-motivation models, but …

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