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…
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Working with ‘I don’t know’
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
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…
