And yeah, this is where it gets seriously scary. Not just for me: for just about everyone. I mentioned in the previous post that “I hate the money-economy”. It might be useful if I explained why? — Yes, this is May Day. Beltane,…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Tag: chaos
May Day, and a mayday for our world
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: anarchist, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, worldview
Normal Service Will Be Resumed…
Yes, I’ve been quiet here for quite a while. Apologies for the absence and all that. Various reasons. One has been the un-joys that is the so-called ‘holiday season’ – a month-long hell of family, ghastly fake-music and faked-up pseudo-jollity everywhere, the…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: chaos, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Society
Sense, make-sense, decide, act
A bit more on methods for whole-enterprise architecture – and for many other domains, for that matter. We can summarise the suggested core-method for whole-enterprise architecture as follows: We need to take some care around keeping it simple, and maintaining…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Knowledge, methodology, sense-making, skills
The role and rise of the business-anarchist
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…
What I do, and why
“Are you the guy who writes books?”, asks the young woman behind me in the cafe. Well, yes, I am – but much as for her, it’s taken me a moment or two to recognise her, and then remember the…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge Tagged with: Business, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, power, responsibility, sense-making, skills, skills development
Catching ideas in flight
Where to start with this one? Where the heck do I start? How do I get it to stay still long enough that I can start? Threads. Words. Sort-of. Except that as soon as I start to write, it’s gone anyway.…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Knowledge Tagged with: chaos, complexity, ideation, images, interconnection, interdependence, Knowledge, sense-making, words
Tools and metatools
Meta-this-that-and-the-other – metamodels, metaframeworks, metamethodology, metatheory, even metatools? What is all this stuff about ‘meta-‘? And what is ‘meta-‘, anyway? One answer is that it’s about a kind of recursion that we often need in our work, in which something is applied to…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge Tagged with: chaos, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, meta-methodology, metaframework, metamodel, metatools, SCAN, toolsets
More on theory and metatheory in EA
“Yes, we need theory in enterprise-architecture”, people will often say to me, “but which theory should it be? Should it be quantitative, everything defined in terms of metrics? Or should it be qualitative, and forget about metrics entirely? Which one…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatheory, paradigm, sense-making, theory
Theory and metatheory in enterprise-architecture
What’s the role of theory in enterprise-architecture? Could there be such as thing as ‘the theory of enterprise-architecture’? Can we use that theory, for example, to separate useful EA models from useless ones? It seems that Nick Malik thinks so, as per…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, metatheory, paradigm, sense-making, theory
On (not) changing the world
Back on the ‘no more arguments‘ theme, there were a couple of responses I received that, although nominally private, were so apposite and to-the-point that I really do need to reprise them here. (Because the messages were private, I’ll paraphrase them…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: anarchist, change, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, meta-methodology, RBPEA, Society
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