Many organisations talk about ‘developing new leaders’. What they mostly mean in practice is ‘developing new managers’. Which is unfortunate, because they’re not the same… The blunt reality is that most organisations I see have an absurd surplus of managers,…
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Tag: Five Elements model
New – EA training-course
Yep, I’ve finally Got Round To It: I’ve created a full set of materials for an EA training-course, building on the whole-of-enterprise approach that I’ve championed all of these years. (Whole-of-enterprise, that is, in contrast to the arbitrarily-constrained IT-is-the-centre-of-everything approach…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: Business, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, tetradian, training
Managers, leaders and hierarchies
Is ‘manager’ the same as ‘leader’? Are leaders always managers? And are hierarchies – and, in particular, classic management-hierarchies – always a natural, necessary and unavoidable fact of (larger) enterprises? These questions came up for me whilst reading three articles…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society Tagged with: bob sutton, Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Five Elements model, hierarchy, leadership, management
Avoiding delusions of strategy
What is a strategy? How do we create a strategy? – rather than merely a delusion of ‘strategy’? Several of the folks in my Twitterstream – Gerold Kathan and Shawn Callahan, amongst others – pointed recently to a great HBR…
Posted in Business, Futures Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, roger martin, SCAN, strategy
Anthropomorphise your applications?
“Don’t anthropomorphise computers – they hate that!” – that was the text of a great graphic I found on Flickr, and that I’ve used in various slidedecks since. Yet might it actually be a good idea sometimes to do just…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: anthropomorphisation, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, sense-making, story
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 3: Five Elements
What frameworks do we need to make sense of relationships, interdependencies and dynamics across the the whole of an enterprise? This is the third of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, frameworks, group dynamics, metaframework, paradigm, sense-making, vpec-t
VPEC-T and Market Model
This one’s for Nigel Green, who asked for ‘war stories’ on his VPEC-T framework. (VPEC-T is an acronym for ‘Values, Policies, Events, Content, Trust’, a very useful frame for assessing flows and transactions in enterprise-architectures.) This isn’t a ‘war story’ as…
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