New books, new strategy, new location, for a new decade: that’s me. And with it, big changes coming up for me, all within the first half of the coming year. In late January, there’ll be the launch of the first…
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Changes coming
Tom G
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Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society
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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…
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, eldercare, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, responsibility, Society
On power
Tom G
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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…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, chaos, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, mythquake, paradigm, power, RBPEA, responsibility, sense-making, Society, values, worldview
Making sense of complexity: A reframe for SCAN
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…
Tagged with: complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, methodology, SCAN, sense-making
Confirming the direction
Tom G
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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,…
Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, responsibility, sense-making, strategy, taxonomy, values
Intimations of arrogance? – an addendum
Tom G
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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,…
Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, responsibility, sense-making, strategy, taxonomy, values
Intimations of arrogance from a grumpy old guy?
Tom G
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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…
Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, responsibility, sense-making, strategy, taxonomy, values
Documenting the Not-known
Tom G
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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
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…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, John Boyd, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons
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‘…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, Futures, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
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