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…
Tag: enterprise canvas
Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, John Boyd, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
Service, product and architecture terminology
This one’s a follow-on to the ‘Service, product, service‘ post, but with an emphasis on the role of architecture-terminology itself, rather than any specific item referred to by that terminology. This starts with a private LinkedIn-message that a colleague sent…
Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, product, service, taxonomy, terminology
Service, product, service
What’s the relationship between product and service? And if, as in the Enterprise Canvas model, we assert that ‘everything is or represents a service’, what then is a product? The short-answer is that a product is a ‘frozen’ service – a…
New book: ‘Changes – a business novel’
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Scribbles / writing
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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…
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…
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
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
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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…
Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, responsibility, viable system model, vsm
Services and disservices – 6: Assessment and actions
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
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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…
Services and disservices – 5: Social example
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
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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…
Tagged with: Business, complexity, culture, disservice, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, RBPEA, responsibility, service, Society, values, worldview
Services and disservices – 5D: Social example (Implications for EA)
Tom G
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
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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…
Tagged with: Business, complexity, culture, disservice, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, RBPEA, responsibility, service, Society, values, worldview
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