Always an interesting event, this one: Integrated-EA, the annual Defence-oriented enterprise-architecture conference in London that’s been a favourite part of my calendar for some years now. This time I was only able to go to the second day – I…
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At Integrated-EA 2014
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, conference, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Integrated EA, sense-making
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Knowable and discoverable
“Profound garbage” – that was how he described my work. Well, I can’t complain: at least he described it as ‘profound’… Over the past few days there’s been a fair amount that’s gone all kinda philosophical and ‘meta’ on me,…
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, SCAN, sense-making
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Posted in Complexity / Structure
SCANning the toaster
How about a nice, simple, first-hand everyday example of SCAN in action? Here’s the context: toasting my mid-morning snack – that old English delicacy, a hot-cross bun. Except that the toaster didn’t work. So here’s the toaster, with the two…
Culture as chaotic adaptive system?
Is culture essentially chaotic? Or is it a complex adaptive system? So asks Stephen Bounds in his post ‘Chaos, complexity and CASes‘ – itself a response to William Powell’s ‘Culture is chaotic‘. Both posts are well worth a read, and seems…
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, culture, ecosystem, enterprise, Enterprise architecture
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Dotting the joins (the JEA version)
[The new editor of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, Len Fehskens, asked me to expand my previous post 'Dotting the joins' into a formal paper for the Journal. Which I did, and it was duly published in the August 2013…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, JEA, Journal of Enterprise Architecture, paradigm, RBPEA, SCAN, Society
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Dotting the joins
Have we gone dotty? – all the way out to the level of the entire economy? And if we have, what can we usefully do about it? It’s a metaphorical question, of course – but perhaps not quite in the…
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
NOTES – actors, agents and extras in the enterprise
If the enterprise is a story, who are the actors in that story? What are their drivers and needs? How do we model and manage the relationships between those actors in the story? (This is part of an overview and…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, how-to, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, NOTES, paradigm, power, responsibility, sense-making, story
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Some notes on NOTES
What is a narrative-oriented approach to enterprise-transformation? Why use it, and where, and how? And where did all this NOTES stuff come from, anyway? NOTES is, I admit, a somewhat-forced acronym for a way to look at business-change: Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise…
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
NOTES – putting it into practice
How do we use an narrative approach in enterprise-transformation? What’s different about it, in real-world practice? How does it work? In the first post in this series, I introduced the core ideas for NOTES – Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise (and)…
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
NOTES – an alternative approach for EA
If – as we’re often told – business-design is about the relationships between people, process and technology, what is it that links all of themes together? Answer: a story. Okay, yes, this is a theme I’ve explored a lot here on…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, chaos, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, NOTES, paradigm, power, responsibility, sense-making, story
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
