What actually do we mean by ‘scalability’ in enterprise-architecture? What can and can’t we scale within the architecture, or the process of architecture itself? These questions came up for me in thinking about a comment by Dave Duggal to the previous…
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Scalability and uniqueness
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, scalability, SCAN, sense-making, social business, uniqueness
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
The craft of knowledge-work, the role of theory and the challenge of scale
If enterprise-architecture is a kind of craft – part art, part science – then how do we get it to scale? Is it even possible to get it to scale? – because if not, the whole enterprise of enterprise-architecture itself…
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, paradigm, sense-making, skills, social business
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
The over-certainties of certification
A strange kind of annual ritual that they did there, that subtle ‘work-to-rule’, every year that I worked at that place. Each autumn, up would come the new crop of graduates, each with their shiny new graduation-certificate and their own…
Tagged with: Business, certification, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative knowledge, paradigm, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, skills, skills development
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Working with ‘I don’t know’
How do we work on something when we don’t know what to do? Where do we start? How do we start? How do we keep going? I had some useful first-hand experience with this earlier this week. Some while back, I’d…
Tagged with: decision-making, narrative knowledge, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, uncertainty
Posted in Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Principles and checklists
What is the role of principles in enterprise-architecture? What is a principle? For that matter, when is a principle not a principle? These were questions that came up in response to a post by Simplicable: ‘101 Principles of Enterprise-Architecture‘. Or…
Tagged with: Business, checklist, complexity, decision-making, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, principles, SCAN, taxonomy
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
