It’s heavy – that’s all I can tell at first. Slowly, carefully, I unwrap the present my great-niece has given me. It’s a small wooden box, with brass hinges and fastener, and with my name inlaid on top in green…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
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The gift of a world
Tagged with: economics, gift-economy, possession-economy, RBPEA, responsibility-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Power and responsibility, Society
Four principles for a sane society: an addendum
What architectures do we need for a society and economics that’d be viable and sustainable over the longer term? And how do we scale that down to the the everyday work we do at present in enterprise-architectures and the like?…
Tagged with: complexity, culture, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, paradigm, possession-economy, power, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, values
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Relational-assets are not ‘possessions’
What happens when someone gets confused about the nature of different types of assets? Short answer: they try to treat everything as ‘possessions’ – and that’s when the lawyers have a field-day… A great example of this is described in…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, possession, possession-economy, property, relational-asset, twitter-followers
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Looking at the big picture
In case you’ve been wondering why I’ve been ranting about those apparently-abstract ideas about ‘Possessed by possession‘ and the like… What I’ve been calling ‘Really-Big-Picture enterprise-architecture‘ is about looking at how we can apply enterprise-architecture ideas at a much larger…
Tagged with: economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, possession, possession-economy, RBPEA, responsibility, responsibility-economy, Society
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
One more try…
Oh well. The past couple of posts on a ‘thought-experiment‘ in using enterprise-architecture methods to guide a fundamental rethink of economics both seem to have gone down like the proverbial lead-balloon. Fair enough. But I guess I’ll do one more try before…
Tagged with: Business, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, governance, law, mythquake, possession-economy, responsibility-economy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
A simpler version of the ‘EA-governance thought-experiment’
The previous post ‘Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture‘ was a bit long… as usual… So here’s a (somewhat) shorter-form version of the same ‘thought-experiment’ about an EA-based approach to governance and law, laid out in step-by-step format, and without the…
Tagged with: Business, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, governance, law, mythquake, possession-economy, responsibility-economy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture
I’ve deliberately chosen a rather bland title here for what may turn out to be, for many people, a seriously scary post… because what this is actually about is rethinking, from scratch, the entire basis of property-law and quite a few…
Tagged with: Business, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, governance, law, mythquake, possession-economy, responsibility-economy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Responses to ‘EA economics challenge’
There’ve been quite a few Twitter-responses to my post ‘An economics challenge for enterprise-architects‘, about a literally-fundamental flaw in present-economics, and what we as enterprise-architects could do about it. (This gets long again: sorry…)
Tagged with: anti-possession, Business, complexity, disruption, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, no-money economy, possession, possession-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
An economics challenge for enterprise-architects
As usual, the previous post ‘The architecture of a no-money economy‘ ended up way too long and involved and ‘wordy’. Sorry… So let’s do a shorter version, in some ways going a bit deeper, but concentrating only on the issues…
Tagged with: anti-possession, Business, complexity, disruption, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, no-money economy, possession, possession-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
The architecture of a no-money economy
A couple of days ago I wrote an intentionally-controversial post on my Sidewise blog, saying that ‘The future of money is that it has no future‘. Was I being serious? Yes. Very serious: I really do mean it when I say…
Tagged with: anti-possession, Business, complexity, disruption, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, no-money economy, possession, possession-economy, Society, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
