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?…
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Four principles for a sane society: an addendum
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Four principles for a sane society: Summary
How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? For those who didn’t (or couldn’t!) read the full series, here’s a (shortish) summary of each of those (rather over-long) posts… From the Introduction Part of the work I’ve been…
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Four principles – 4: Adaptability is everything
How do we work with change – and, especially, extreme-change – in an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the fifth in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1:…
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Four principles – 3: Money doesn’t matter
What’s the real role of money within design for an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? [Apologies, folks: this one’s turned out to be really long, even by my usual standards – but unfortunately this theme is so darn controversial that it really does need the…
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Four principles – 2: There are no rights
What rights do we need to design for in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the third in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules…
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Four principles – 1: There are no rules
What rules do we need in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the second in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules – only…
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Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
Four principles for a sane society
How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? Yep, it’s that time of year again: the lead-up to the annual Integrated EA conference, where they allow me to go somewhat off-the-wall and present the current ‘big-idea’…
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Power-issues in EA – tread carefully…
Continuing with the series on power and politics in enterprise-architecture, a brief summary-so-far, some practical suggestions on modelling of power-issues, and a very important warning… The quick summary is as follows: the practice of enterprise-architecture is often ‘relentlessly political’ one…
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Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility
Power and politics in enterprise-architecture
Anyone who’s involved in any form of enterprise-architecture would know that it’s best described as ‘relentlessly political’: seems almost everything we deal with turns out to be some kind of tortuously-intransigent wicked-problem. Which in turn seem so often to be rooted…
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Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility
