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: enterprise canvas
New book: ‘Changes – a business novel’
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Structure, story and relational-assets
This is an attempt to get back towards ‘Normal Service Will Be Resumed…‘ – I don’t know how coherent it will be, but it’s a start, anyway… Over the past few weeks I’ve had a stream of very good questions from Eric…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, relational-asset, service-oriented enterprise, story, taxonomy
Why service, function and capability
Ah definitions, definitions – so many to choose from! But somehow, only a limited number of labels to go around, to share out amongst all those definitions? Which means that people end up using the same labels for different things,…
Pervasives and the VSM algedonic link
How do we keep on track to enterprise purpose? Perhaps more to the point, how can we know when we’re falling off-track, in time to recover? To me, one of the keys here is the perhaps least-known part of the…
Services and disservices – 6: Assessment and actions
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie a huge range of…
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Services and disservices – 5: Social example
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie a huge range of…
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Services and disservices – 5D: Social example (Implications for EA)
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie…
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Services and disservices – 5C: Social example (Media-examples 6-9)
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie…
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Services and disservices – 5B: Social example (Media-examples 1-5)
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie…
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Services and disservices – 5A: Social example (Introduction)
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society Tagged with: abuse, Business, complexity, culture, disservice, domestic violence, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, RBPEA, responsibility, service, Society, values, violence, worldview
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