chaos – Tom Graves / Tetradian

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Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare

Posted on 9 November 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society — 2 Comments ↓

I’d been sort-of looking after my elderly mother for some years now – the whole of the past decade, probably, though more and more so over the years. Earlier this year it had reached the point where I couldn’t really…

On power

Posted on 1 November 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — No Comments ↓

What is power? Where does it come from? Where does it go? Who has it? Who doesn’t have it? Who should have it? Who shouldn’t have it? And why? – or why not, for that matter – to any of those questions…? Perennial questions indeed, in just about…

What is enterprise? What is architecture?

Posted on 8 July 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 4 Comments ↓

What the heck is ‘enterprise-architecture’? Why are there are so many arguments on this, so many conflicting opinions? Perhaps a key clue is in the fact that there is so much argument about this? And that maybe the best way to…

May Day, and a mayday for our world

Posted on 1 May 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider — 7 Comments ↓

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,…

Normal Service Will Be Resumed…

Posted on 3 January 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider — 4 Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: chaos, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Society

Sense, make-sense, decide, act

Posted on 30 August 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 2 Comments ↓

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…

The role and rise of the business-anarchist

Posted on 20 April 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility — No Comments ↓

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

Posted on 6 February 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge — 3 Comments ↓

“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…

Catching ideas in flight

Posted on 25 June 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Knowledge — 7 Comments ↓

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.…

Tools and metatools

Posted on 25 January 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge — No Comments ↓

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…