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The over-certainties of certification

Posted on 28 January 2013 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility — 10 Comments ↓

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

Working with ‘I don’t know’

Posted on 27 January 2013 by

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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

SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis

Posted on 24 October 2012 by

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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

The social construction of process

Posted on 5 September 2012 by

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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…

Tagged with: bpm, Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative knowledge, paradigm, process, process development, process-architecture, taxonomy, worldview

Using the ‘This’ game in EA modelling

Posted on 18 June 2012 by

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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

New book ‘The enterprise as story’ is published

Posted on 11 March 2012 by

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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

Presentation ‘The enterprise is the story’ now online

Posted on 11 March 2012 by

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‘The enterprise is the story‘ – my presentation from the recent Integrated-EA enterprise-architecture conference in London – is now online on Slideshare: The enterprise is the story View more PowerPoint from Tetradian Consulting The slidedeck is just under 80 slides,…

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Work-in-progress – two more books

Posted on 16 December 2011 by

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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.…

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Use EA to identify hidden costs in outsourcing

Posted on 6 December 2011 by

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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

Five EA app ideas – anyone interested?

Posted on 23 November 2011 by

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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…