What’s the trend? What’s going to be the New Normal, in business and elsewhere? Perhaps it’s just that time of year when people indulge in pointless ‘predictions’, but I’ve been seeing lots of articles recently that something-or-other either is or…
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Not the New Normal
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, disruption, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, mythquake, RBPEA, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
I don’t know
I don’t know. There – how hard was that to say? For some people, seemingly impossible. But as an enterprise-architect and a generalist, I have to be able to say it often – very often, in fact. Because the fact…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, disruption, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, paradigm, responsibility
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Work-in-progress – two more books
Another follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work‘, just a quick note to let you know about two current book-projects. The first has a working-title of The enterprise as story: the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture.…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, complexity, disruption, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, methodology, narrative knowledge, paradigm, power, story, values
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing
Using SCAN: some quick examples
Yeah, right. ‘SCAN’. Yet another pretty acronym. What’s the point? What’s the use? Gimme some real examples, huh? This one’s a follow-up to the previous post “Let’s do a quick SCAN on this”, in which I introduced the SCAN frame…
Tagged with: Business, decision-making, disruption, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, SCAN, sense-making
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
SCAN – an Ambiguous correction
Yup, I admit: I got it wrong. (Well, the kind of ‘wrong’ that happens often in early-stage development-work, anyway. ) In my initial version of the SCAN sensemaking-framework, I wasn’t happy with the ‘A’ keyword for the ‘not-certain but we…
Tagged with: Business, decision-making, disruption, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, SCAN, sense-making
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Comparing SCAN and Cynefin
Sensemaking in business? What is this [choose-your-expletive] ‘SCAN‘? Why complicate things with yet another sensemaking-framework? Isn’t SCAN just a rebadged rip-off of Cynefin? And why not just use Cynefin like everyone else does, anyway? I’ll be providing some detailed worked-examples…
Tagged with: Business, cynefin, decision-making, disruption, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, SCAN, sense-making
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
“Let’s do a quick SCAN on this”
What’s a quick way to start making sense of some context? – fast enough to help in making good decisions fast, too? If you’ve been watching this blog or any of my other writing, you’ll know I’ve been working on…
Tagged with: Business, decision-making, disruption, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, SCAN, sense-making
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Responses to ‘EA economics challenge’
There’ve been quite a few Twitter-responses to my post ‘An economics challenge for enterprise-architects‘, about a literally-fundamental flaw in present-economics, and what we as enterprise-architects could do about it. (This gets long again: sorry…)
Tagged with: anti-possession, Business, complexity, disruption, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, no-money economy, possession, possession-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
An economics challenge for enterprise-architects
As usual, the previous post ‘The architecture of a no-money economy‘ ended up way too long and involved and ‘wordy’. Sorry… So let’s do a shorter version, in some ways going a bit deeper, but concentrating only on the issues…
Tagged with: anti-possession, Business, complexity, disruption, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, no-money economy, possession, possession-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
The architecture of a no-money economy
A couple of days ago I wrote an intentionally-controversial post on my Sidewise blog, saying that ‘The future of money is that it has no future‘. Was I being serious? Yes. Very serious: I really do mean it when I say…
Tagged with: anti-possession, Business, complexity, disruption, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, no-money economy, possession, possession-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
