How do I think? How do I think, really? How do you think, exactly? How does anyone think – and describe their thinking? Especially about ‘big-picture’, often-abstract themes such as enterprise-architecture? Yeah, I’ve been struggling with this one a long time – a very…
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Two SCAN notes – 2: Causal Layered Analysis
Regular readers of this blog will know I refer quite often to one of the core techniques in futures-studies, Sohail Inayatullah’s Causal Layered Analysis (CLA). But as of a couple of weeks ago, you won’t find any reference to it on…
Tagged with: causal layered analysis, complexity, culture, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Futures, SCAN, sense-making, story, worldview
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Two SCAN notes – 1: Edges
The SCAN framework describes sensemaking and decision-making in terms of four distinct ‘domains’, by convention labelled as Simple, Complicated, Ambiguous and Not-known. But what happens at the edges? (The domains themselves are fairly distinct, anyway, in the sense that viable…
Tagged with: complexity, context-space mapping, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative, SCAN, strategy
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
At Integrated-EA 2014
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…
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
Posted in Complexity / Structure
Posted in Complexity / Structure
Starting-friction
Great idea! Let’s get started! Uh… How do we get started? Kind of ‘There’s a hole in my bucket‘, often – everything depends on everything else, so there’s no clear place to start. But since everything does depend on everything else, it’d…
Tagged with: change, change management, decision-making, enterprise, responsibility, Scribbles / writing
Posted in Business, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing
Posted in Business, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing
SCAN – some recent notes
Still somewhat in catch-up mode, but seems like this’d be the right time to summarise a few ideas that have come up in recent months on the SCAN framework for sensemaking and decision-making. First of these is a simple cross-map…
Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, SCAN, sense-making, sensemaking
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Checking the SCORE
What’s a quick, practical alternative to SWOT – one that gives a bit more depth for strategic assessment, yet is still just as fast to use? My answer? Check out the SCORE: Strengths, Challenges, Options, Responses, Effectiveness. What triggered this…
Tagged with: Business, change, context-space mapping, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, SCORE, sense-making, strategy
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures
At ‘EA and Systems-Thinking’ conference
For enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking alike, how can we reach towards the opposite of their too-common anti-pattern – all those endless ‘academic’ arguments on LinkedIn? More to the point, how can we bring it out of the abstract, and down into…
Tagged with: complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, paradigm, sense-making, systems-thinking, vsm
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
SCAN as ‘decision-dartboard’
How to use SCAN as a ‘decision-dartboard’ in work-planning? That was probably the highlight in a great conversation outside the IRM-EAC conference in London earlier this week with Kai Schlüter, enterprise-architect at Danish engineering conglomerate Danfoss. Kai heads up a team…
Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, kai schluter, SCAN, sense-making
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
