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…
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Using the ‘This’ game in EA modelling
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, models, narrative knowledge, story, the This game
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
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…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Integrated EA, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, story
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Work-in-progress – two more books
Another follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work‘, just a quick note to let you know about two current book-projects. The first has a working-title of The enterprise as story: the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture.…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, complexity, disruption, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, methodology, narrative knowledge, paradigm, power, story, values
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing
Use EA to identify hidden costs in outsourcing
Why do we need enterprise-architecture in a business? And why does that EA need to be broader than just IT, often all the way out to a true enterprise-wide scope? One reason is implied this Tweet by Belgian consultant Patrick Van…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, cost-driven, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative knowledge, outsourcing, paradigm
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Five EA app ideas – anyone interested?
This is another follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work’ – this time about how to bring all of this to a wider audience and market, and help bring ‘whole-enterprise architecture’ ideas into more general…
The ‘This’ game and EA toolsets
Continuing on the theme of the ‘This’ game for engaging people in enterprise-architecture exploration and development, as described in the two previous posts ‘This: an exploratory game for service-oriented EA‘ and ‘More on the ‘This’ game for enterprise-architecture‘. The final…
More on the ‘This’ game for enterprise-architecture
A great session yesterday with Kevin Smith, brainstorming ideas for the ‘This’ game for service-oriented enterprise-architecture. I’d originally envisaged ‘This‘ as a kind of card-game, with questions and supporting-information printed on playing-cards: There would be that small set of mandatory…
This: an exploratory game for service-oriented EA
For a while now I’ve been brewing a kind of ‘exploratory game’ for enterprise-architecture, with the somewhat uninventive title of This. It’s based on the same service-oriented view of the enterprise as Enterprise Canvas – in fact we would typically…
