If the enterprise is a story, who are the actors in that story? What are their drivers and needs? How do we model and manage the relationships between those actors in the story? (This is part of an overview and…
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NOTES – actors, agents and extras in the enterprise
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, how-to, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, NOTES, paradigm, power, responsibility, sense-making, story
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Some notes on NOTES
What is a narrative-oriented approach to enterprise-transformation? Why use it, and where, and how? And where did all this NOTES stuff come from, anyway? NOTES is, I admit, a somewhat-forced acronym for a way to look at business-change: Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise…
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
NOTES – putting it into practice
How do we use an narrative approach in enterprise-transformation? What’s different about it, in real-world practice? How does it work? In the first post in this series, I introduced the core ideas for NOTES – Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise (and)…
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
NOTES – an alternative approach for EA
If – as we’re often told – business-design is about the relationships between people, process and technology, what is it that links all of themes together? Answer: a story. Okay, yes, this is a theme I’ve explored a lot here on…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, chaos, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, NOTES, paradigm, power, responsibility, sense-making, story
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
The over-certainties of certification
A strange kind of annual ritual that they did there, that subtle ‘work-to-rule’, every year that I worked at that place. Each autumn, up would come the new crop of graduates, each with their shiny new graduation-certificate and their own…
Tagged with: Business, certification, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative knowledge, paradigm, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, skills, skills development
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Working with ‘I don’t know’
How do we work on something when we don’t know what to do? Where do we start? How do we start? How do we keep going? I had some useful first-hand experience with this earlier this week. Some while back, I’d…
Tagged with: decision-making, narrative knowledge, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, uncertainty
Posted in Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Knowledge, Power and responsibility
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
The social construction of process
That previous post on process was, yes, I’ll admit it, a bit long: but the key point is that the term ‘process’ is necessarily a bit blurred, and that we get into trouble if we try too hard to sharpen up…
Using the ‘This’ game in EA modelling
A great session last Friday with enterprise-architect Stuart Boardman, using his Metropolis thought-experiment as a live test-case for my still somewhat-experimental ‘This’ game for service-modelling. Stuart developed Metropolis as a worked-example for service-modelling at very large scale – the scale of…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, models, narrative knowledge, story, the This game
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Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
New book ‘The enterprise as story’ is published
Also launched at the Integrated EA 2012 conference was my new book ‘The enterprise as story‘: Full title: The Enterprise As Story: the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture ISBN: 978-1-906681-34-0 Description: Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture describe everything in terms of…
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Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
