What is collaboration? Why do people collaborate? Perhaps more to the point, why don’t they collaborate? How do we end up so often with what we’d have to call anticollaboration – the exact antithesis of collaboration? So I’m standing there in …

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What’s the best kind of place to do enterprise-architecture and similar work? What are the best environments, for which parts of the work? And why? This was a fun set of questions that came up in my Twitterstream earlier this …

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Ever since I saw Alex Osterwalder’s brilliant business-architecture book Business Model Generation a few months back, it’s been obvious to me that we need something of the same clarity, simplicity and quality for the broader discipline of whole-of-enterprise architecture. We …

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Listening to a podcast with Patti Anklam on the InMagic social-knowledge website – ‘Today’s collaboration imperative: a podcast with Patti Anklam‘ – reminded me of her previous posts some months back on the ‘Three KMs’, three distinct layers of knowledge-management …

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