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…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
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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
SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis
How do we make sense of story – the stories and narratives and anecdotes that people tell each other and themselves about their world? How can we link between the layers of story to help us make sense of some…
Tagged with: causal layered analysis, Enterprise architecture, Futures, mythquake, narrative knowledge, paradigm, SCAN, sense-making, story, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Making plans, sort-of
Okay, I’ve moved on to a different garden: what next? What’s the plan? Uh… probably that ‘The Plan’ is that there isn’t one? In fact that’s the whole point? (Or, if you simply must have a plan, I could paraphrase a…
Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, mythquake, power, responsibility, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider
Getting down to work in a different garden
When I said I was moving on, in the previous post ‘Time for this on toad to move on‘, yes, I was serious: I’m moving out of mainstream ‘enterprise’-architecture. Am I giving up? No, not at all. Am I actually…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, mythquake, responsibility, Society, story, strategy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider
Time for this old toad to move on
Strange things, metaphors: they kind of have a life of their own sometimes… My mother tells the story of the first house she and my father lived in, some small place way up in the north of England somewhere, back…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, mythquake, responsibility, Society, story, strategy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society, The Outsider
One more try…
Oh well. The past couple of posts on a ‘thought-experiment‘ in using enterprise-architecture methods to guide a fundamental rethink of economics both seem to have gone down like the proverbial lead-balloon. Fair enough. But I guess I’ll do one more try before…
Tagged with: Business, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, governance, law, mythquake, possession-economy, responsibility-economy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
A simpler version of the ‘EA-governance thought-experiment’
The previous post ‘Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture‘ was a bit long… as usual… So here’s a (somewhat) shorter-form version of the same ‘thought-experiment’ about an EA-based approach to governance and law, laid out in step-by-step format, and without the…
Tagged with: Business, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, governance, law, mythquake, possession-economy, responsibility-economy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture
I’ve deliberately chosen a rather bland title here for what may turn out to be, for many people, a seriously scary post… because what this is actually about is rethinking, from scratch, the entire basis of property-law and quite a few…
Tagged with: Business, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, governance, law, mythquake, possession-economy, responsibility-economy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Rethinking the architecture of management
Why is management the way that it is? Does it work well that way? And what part does the architecture of management play in determining how well it does or doesn’t work? (This is probably another politically-risky post for me…
