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…
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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…
Knowledge, process, people, and enterprise-architecture
Reading KCore‘s excellent blog-post ‘High quality, High Impact KM: Start with the right questions‘, this early section of the article caught my eye: I’ve set out my stall when it comes to KM and by now it should be pretty clear…
Tagged with: enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, knowledge management, narrative knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Enterprise-architecture? – it's all about story
Enterprise-architecture is all about story. The enterprise itself is a story; but the practice of enterprise-architecture is all about stories too. Let me tell you a story… There once was this half-crazed guy who used to go on about an…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, paradigm, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Two points of view on (enterprise) architecture
Was showing a colleague one of my favourite small books yesterday: Matthew Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned In Architecture School. Briefly flicking through the two-page spreads, one caught my eye. Seems so apposite to enterprise-architecture and the like that it’s…
Tagged with: architecture, Business, business architecture, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative knowledge, story, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Interview on enterprise-architecture at AE-Rio 2011
I must admit I’m pleased with this brief interview, filmed by the AV crew at AE Rio 2011 (many thanks, guys!). It covers a lot of ground in barely four minutes: the importance of stories and culture in enterprise-architecture, key…
Tagged with: AE Rio, Business, business architecture, conference, culture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative, narrative knowledge, story, strategy, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
