decision-making – 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…

Making sense of complexity: A reframe for SCAN

Posted on 15 July 2019 by

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What’s a simple way to make sense of complexity? For me, the go-to tool for this is SCAN – a visual-checklist to map out uncertainty and complexity relative to a given moment or given action: SCAN has been around for almost…

Confirming the direction

Posted on 7 January 2019 by

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

Yeah, it’s been a while since I wrote anything new here… – kind of overdue for Normal Service Will Be Resumed and all that…? But yes, I am still here, still working, still pushing onward. And gratified to see that, yes,…

Intimations of arrogance? – an addendum

Posted on 20 August 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, The Outsider — 3 Comments ↓

Carrying on from the previous post, with a bit of an explanation about why I’m becoming so much of ‘a grumpy old guy’… Here’s the blunt fact: I’m not a good thinker. I know that. Too many gaps in my knowledge,…

Intimations of arrogance from a grumpy old guy?

Posted on 12 August 2018 by

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Okay, I admit it: I’m at real risk right now of becoming a grumpy old guy: Getting snappy at people on LinkedIn and all that. More than a fair bit of that phrase about “Will not suffer fools gladly”. Patience strained…

Documenting the Not-known

Posted on 6 May 2018 by

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In our work on simplifying the ‘inventory’ of tools and techniques I’d developed for whole-enterprise architecture and the like, one of the challenges we keep hitting up against is how to capture ideas, information and insights, as they appear during…

Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds

Posted on 11 April 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures — 5 Comments ↓

It began with an octopus; wandered into an accidental remark about “a flocking of Boyds”; and then drifted off somewhat sideways from there. But seems that this crabwise shuffle may be leading somewhere useful – for my current explorations of…

Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons

Posted on 28 March 2018 by

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

Following on from the previous post ‘Sensemaking: Into the void‘, what’s a good everyday analogy or example on how to develop our skills in sensemaking and strategy? In particular, how to understand, apply and use the ‘sense, make-sense, decide, act‘…

Sensemaking: Into the void

Posted on 14 March 2018 by

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How do we make sense when we don’t know what’s going on? What happens when we find ourselves diving into ‘the void’ of the unknown and uncertain? And what can we do there, to make enough sense of ‘the unknown’ to make useful…