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At ‘EA and Systems-Thinking’ conference

Posted on 17 June 2013 by Tom G — 4 Comments ↓

For enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking alike, how can we reach towards the opposite of their too-common anti-pattern – all those endless ‘academic’ arguments on LinkedIn? More to the point, how can we bring it out of the abstract, and down into…

Everyday sexism of the subtler kind

Posted on 10 May 2013 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

How does sexism and suchlike become invisibly ingrained in our society? Answer: whenever said sexism is promoted as ‘progressive thinking’… To many people, the term ‘sexism’ applies only to gender-imbalance that directly affects women: yet a few moments thought should…

Should companies go to jail?

Posted on 17 March 2013 by Tom G — 4 Comments ↓

Could companies go to jail? An odd-seeming question, I know, but I’ve been musing somewhat on the deeper implications of that strange legal fiction of ‘corporate person’… What started this off was that I went to the local HMV video-store,…

Four principles for a sane society: an addendum

Posted on 23 February 2013 by Tom G — 12 Comments ↓

What architectures do we need for a society and economics that’d be viable and sustainable over the longer term? And how do we scale that down to the the everyday work we do at present in enterprise-architectures and the like?…

Four principles for a sane society: Summary

Posted on 20 February 2013 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? For those who didn’t (or couldn’t!) read the full series, here’s a (shortish) summary of each of those (rather over-long) posts… From the Introduction Part of the work I’ve been…

Four principles – 4: Adaptability is everything

Posted on 18 February 2013 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

How do we work with change – and, especially, extreme-change – in an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the fifth in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1:…

Four principles – 3: Money doesn’t matter

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Tom G — 10 Comments ↓

What’s the real role of money within design for an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? [Apologies, folks: this one’s turned out to be really long, even by my usual standards – but unfortunately this theme is so darn controversial that it really does need the…

Four principles – 2: There are no rights

Posted on 4 February 2013 by Tom G — 6 Comments ↓

What rights do we need to design for in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the third in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules…

Four principles – 1: There are no rules

Posted on 30 January 2013 by Tom G — 11 Comments ↓

What rules do we need in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the second in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules – only…

Four principles for a sane society

Posted on 29 January 2013 by Tom G — 4 Comments ↓

How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? Yep, it’s that time of year again: the lead-up to the annual Integrated EA conference, where they allow me to go somewhat off-the-wall and present the current ‘big-idea’…