Delighted to say I’ve just published my ‘business-novel’ Changes. Hooray! More details are at https://leanpub.com/tb-changes . Here’s the cover: And here’s the blurb: Marco has a new job: Head of Organizational Change. But his bright new plan to bring the company into the…
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Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Tag: decision-making
New book: ‘Changes – a business novel’
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Scribbles / writing Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business transformation, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, methodology, narrative, paradigm, power, responsibility, SCAN, Scribbles / writing, sense-making, story, strategy
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
What What? and other taxonomic tangles
One of the huge challenges of trying to make things simple in a complex context is that often it can make at first make things seem more complicated. For a while, anyway, until things settle down a bit, and the…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: business architecture, complexity, decision-making, enterprise, methodology, sense-making, taxonomy
Methods for whole-enterprise architecture – Keep it simple
For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. One crucial criterion is that any methods and frameworks we use must support fractality – the same patterns, regardless of scope…
Making sense in disruption
An unexpected referendum result in one smallish country that triggers business-uncertainty on a literally worldwide scope and scale: that’s Brexit. A nice example, in fact, of what’s really meant by the term ‘disruption‘. What happens when those ‘rules’ by which…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures Tagged with: anarchist, Brexit, Business, complexity, decision-making, disruption, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, sense-making
Why and Because
After years of going back and forth to Latin America, I still struggle with the difference between para and por – both which sort-of align with the English word ‘for‘, but in different and often-confusing ways. Going the other way, though, the…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures Tagged with: complexity, decision-making, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, methodology, sense-making
Another SCAN crossmap: Kolb Learning Styles
Another SCAN crossmap – this time with the Kolb Learning Styles model – that may well be useful in the knowledge-management and skills-development-space. It was first spotted by Archi co-developer Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie – many thanks, JB! I’ll let JB set…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: complexity, david kolb, decision-making, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, kolb learning styles, learning, SCAN, sense-making
When what you need most is the paddle…
Yeah, it’s been that kind of time. Trying to respond politely, professionally, as a whole-enterprise architect, to a seemingly-unending stream of people who just don’t get it. People who measure everything – including human life – in solely monetary terms. People who believe…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, sense-making
Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – Summary
For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is a brief summary of the previous six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise…
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Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – Worked-example
For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is a follow-on to a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: Business, business architecture, certification, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, framework, Knowledge, metaframework, methodology, paradigm, sense-making, standards, strategy, training
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