Often we talk about narrative and narrative-knowledge as if there’s only a single story in play at any one time, a single thread of meaning that’s carried by the words that that one person says. Yet in reality there are…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
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Blog Archives
Anti-clients, kurtosis-risks and public riots
In quite a few of my posts on enterprise-architecture, you may have seen two unfamiliar terms: anti-client, and kurtosis-risk. To see these two concepts in real-world action, and to get some understanding of how important they are in enterprise-architecture practice,…
Tagged with: alienation, anti-client, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, kurtosis risk, London riots, mythquake, Society, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider
Trust and the enterprise
Trust is the core of the enterprise in action. So why do so many businesses and other organisations seem to go out of their way to destroy that trust? And what can we as enterprise-architects do to make it work…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, mythquake, narrative, paradigm, power, Society, trust, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Enterprise Debt and the Shirky Principle
Just how much are organisations themselves ‘their own worst enemy’ for the enterprise? Have been thinking about this one for quite a while, following up on some great conversations with Kevin Smith (of PEAF fame) and Nigel Green (of VPEC-T…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, clay shirky, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, kevin smith, mythquake, nigel green, paradigm, peaf, Society, strategy, values, vpec-t
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society
Yabbies – a novel
Happy to announce that I’ve at last gotten round to publishing my sort-of-novel Yabbies. Hooray! (I perhaps ought to say ‘completed and published’, but as you’ll see, ‘completing’ isn’t quite the right word, since much of the content is made…
Tagged with: anarchist, book, disruption, economics, Futures, mythquake, narrative, paradigm, power, publishing, responsibility, Scribbles / writing, story, sustainability, values, worldview, yabbies
Posted in Power and responsibility, Realities, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Power and responsibility, Realities, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider
An architecture of responsibility
Following on from the previous post on ‘Possessed by possession‘, if it’s true that there is no way to make a possession-based economy sustainable, then it seems worthwhile to take a look at some of the implications. First, though, a…
Tagged with: Business, chaos, complexity, culture, disruption, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, myth, mythquake, paradigm, power, responsibility, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Possessed by possession?
In case you hadn’t noticed, there are some big changes happening right now in the wider world… Lots and lots of them, at every scale and in just about every major context, from political to social, environmental to technological, and…
Tagged with: Business, chaos, complexity, culture, disruption, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, myth, mythquake, paradigm, power, responsibility, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Power, people and enterprise-architecture
We really can’t explore the theme of people in enterprise-architecture without addressing the theme – and problem – of power. In principle, power should be straightforward. The physics definition – roughly speaking – is that power is the ability to…
Tagged with: abuse, Business, business architecture, complexity, culture, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, mythquake, narrative, paradigm, power, quality, responsibility, Society, story, strategy, values, violence
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility, Society
Enterprise-architecture: Bring on the clowns?
Over on the long-running LinkedIn thread about enterprise-architecture as a bridge between strategy and execution, there was a bit of discussion about trusted advisors and a potential role for Pat Ferdinandi‘s parrot (Scarlet – the star of Pat’s enterprise-architecture how-to…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, mythquake, paradigm, power, story, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, The Outsider
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, The Outsider
